2 mse 
94 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
from the Biltmore Herbarium (xo. 3634 6) from collections made 
at Nashville in 1897; and on the gth of October, 1898, a single 
large tree in fruit was seen by Mr. John Muir, Mr. William M. 
Canby, and myself close to the high road which leads eastward 
from Huntsville across the ridge known as Monte Sano. Sub- 
sequently it was found to be abundant on the hills near Hunts- 
ville and on those in the neighborhood of Rome by Mr. C, Li 
Boynton, of the Biltmore Herbarium. It is the Ulmus racemosa 
of Chapman’s Flora (ed. 2, Supplement, 649; ed. 3, 444) so far 
as relates to the river banks of Tennessee, and the Ulmus race- 
mosa of Sargent’s Silva (7:48) so far as relates to middle Ten- 
nessee. 
Ulmus serotina is an interesting addition to the small group 
of autumn-flowering elms in which the calyx is divided to below 
the middle (Micropretea of Spach), and to which belong Ulmus 
crassifolia Nutt. of southern Arkansas and Texas, and Uh 
parvifolia Jacq. of northern and central Chind. From thes 
differs in its racemose flowers, more deeply divided calyx wit 
obovate lobes, and in its much larger and acuminate lea 
The Himalayan. Ulmus lancifolia Roxb. (Ulmus Hookert 
Planchon), also with a deeply divided calyx, is placed 
Planchon (De Candolle, Prodr. 17: 162) in MICROPTELEA, 
the flowers, which are borne in short racemes, appear in spl 
from the axils of leaves of a pfevious year. 
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
