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(4 or 5 pairs) and less prominent veins of the leaves, shorter petioles, 
and more abruptly attenuate base of the blades, earlier time of blos- 
soming, glandular calyx lobes, and smaller fruit. 
( Fraxinus Biltmoreana, n. sp.—A tree 1o-18™ in height, the trunk 
not often over 3 in diameter; branches large and spreading ; branch- 
lets stout, the growth of the season softly and densely pubescent: 
leaves 2 to 3" long, oblong to oval in outline; leaflets 7 to 9, ovate 
to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes falcate, rounded, atten- 
uate or inequilateral at the base, entire or obscurely denticulate, dark 
green and slightly lustrous above, below whitened and from sparsely 
to copiously pubescent, especially along the veins ; petioles and petio- 
lules finely and densely pubescent to puberulent: samaras, which are 
_borne in open pubescent to nearly glabrous panicles, large, 3.5 '© S: 
long, the wing about 6™” wide and from two and a half to three times 
longer than the elliptical, unmargined, many-nerved body. Flowers 
not collected. 
The species evidently bears about the relation to F. Americana L. 
that /. Pennsylvanica Marsh. exhibits to /. lanceolata Borck. From 
. Americana the Biltmore ash may be distinguished by the velvety 
twigs and petioles, the clove brown buds and usually stouter branches 
and branchlets, and by the elliptical bodies of the large samaras. 
The limits of the distribution of Fraxinus Biltmoreana, 2% a 
shown by specimens preserved in the herbarium, extend nae 
mountains of North Carolina (Biltmore herbarium, no. 4°49; 2 
more, N. C., type locality), to northern Georgia (Dr. J. K. Small, ee 
Toccoa, Habersham county, Ga.). It is very probable that the spec 
will be found to occupy a much larger area when better known. 
DisPoRUM MACULATUM (Buckley) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 15: a 
1888.— Splendid examples of this rare species were ent k ril 
slopes of Busbee mountain, Buncombe county, North eee an 
22, 1896, the blossoms just opening; and again, agape rings, 
specimens with flowers fully expanded were gathered oe i; as in 
Madison county, North Carolina. In these specimens, as = ei 
a mere fragment preserved in the Chapman herbarium from ge 
locality and gathered in 1887, the stamens are longer than aie 
ments of the perianth, the divisions of which are liberally : os ly. 
with small purplish dots, and the ovary is conspicuously cca ate 
The pubescence of the stems and leaves is coarse, and not * 
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