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long, margins irregularly crenate-dentate ; racemes glabrous, 10-20- 

 flowered, chiefly from the lower and middle nodes ; bracts linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, the lower ones usually exceeding the pedi- 

 cels and sometimes the flowers ; sepals lanceolate, 3.5 to 4 mm long, 

 acute ; corolla blue, 6-8 mm broad ; capsules globose-ovoid, about 4 

 mm in diameter ( ? immature). 



Moist fields near Rochester, M. S. Baxter, October 10, 1916. 

 Type in the herbarium of the New York State Museum. 



Related to Veronica americana, but differing chiefly in 

 the broader leaves which are blunt or rounded at both ends, the 

 racemes chiefly from the lower or middle nodes and the larger sepals 

 and bracts. 



Hickories of the Rochester Parks 



Through the courtesy of John Dunbar of the Rochester city parks 

 department a good collection of the native species of Hicoria of the 

 vicinity of Rochester was secured on July 19th. Notes were made 

 regarding the species and varieties, and while the fruits were not 

 fully mature, the condition of them and the foliage was most favor- 

 able for study and comparison. 



Hicoria ovata var. fraxinifolia (Sargent) Ashe. 



(Jour. E. Mitch. Soc. 34: 133. 1918) 

 Carya ovata var. fraxinifolia Sargent, Trees & Shrubs, 2:207. 1913. 



A rather distinct variety, reported from the vicinity of Rochester, 



Monroe county; Conesus lake, Livingston county, and Mount 



Morris and Macedon, Wayne county ; Canandaigua, Ontario county, 



and Indian river, Lewis county. 



Hicoria ovata var. nuttallii (Sargent) Ashe, 1. c. 132 



Carya ovata var. nuttallii Sargent, i. c. 2C/. 



C. microcarpa Nutt. Silva N. Am., t : 39. t. /.?. 1842, Not Nutt. 1818. 



A small fruited form of H. ovata. occasional in wes'tern New 



York. Specimens from Canandaigua collected by B. H. Slavin. 



cited by Sargent as typical, are to be seen in the herbarium of the 



Rochester park department. 



Hicoria glabra var. megacarpa (Sargent) Ashe, 1. c. 134. 



Carya megacarpa Sarg. Trees & Shrubs, 2:201. pi. CLXXX. 1913. 

 Hicoria ovalis megacarpa Ashe, Torreya, 18:74. 1918. 

 Carya glabra var. megacarpa Sarg. Bot. Gaz., 66:244. 1918. 



The type of this variety is a wild tree, growing in Seneca Park, 



Rochester, and occurs also in Highland Park. Specimens of the 



Seneca Park tree were collected and the tree is quite certainly a well- 



