156 THE AZALEAS OF NORTH AMERICA 



Georgia. Charlton County: Folkston, June 16 and July 16, 



1918, T. G. Harbison (No. 69, 98); without precise locality, May 18, 



1918, T. G. Harbison (No. 58). 



This form differs from the type in all the leaves being densely soft-pubescent 

 beneath and slightly puberulous and often strigillose above; also the branchlets are 

 usually more or less puberulous and the pedicels are more densely villose, while 

 the winter-buds are glabrous as in the type. Pubescent leaves are also found 

 occasionally in the typical form, but they are restricted to the upper part of the 

 more vigorous branchlets, while the leaves of the short branchlets which are usually 

 terminated by floral winter-buds and the lower leaves on the shoots are glabrous or 

 nearly so. Such pubescent leaves are present, e. g. in Chapman's specimen, in 

 Harbison's No. 6 from Lakeland, Florida, in his Nos. 21 (partly) and 27 from Eustis, 

 in Nash's No. 1306 from the same locality, in Baker's No. 529 a from Maitland and 

 in his No. 499 a from Wekiva Springs, in Harbison's No, 20 from Sebring, Florida, 

 in his No. 84 and 100 from Folkston, Small's specimen from Valdosta, Harbison's 

 No. 2 from Mobile, Alabama, and his Nos. 24, 27, 28 from Biloxi, Mississippi, and 

 Cock's No. 2222 from Pearl River, Louisiana. 



Rhododendron serrulatum var. georgianum Rehder, var. nov. 



A typo recedit gemmis dense sericec-pubeseentibus perulis paucioribus et 

 tantum mucronatis viz aristatis. 



Georgia. Charlton County: Folkston, July 16, 1918, T. G. 

 Harbison (No. 68, type; shrub 10 ft. tall; No. 77), July 15 (No. 66), 

 July 17, 1918 (No. 86, shrub 18 ft. tall) and Nov. 27, 1919, T. G. 

 Harbison (No. 118, low shrub) ; without precise locality May 17 and 18, 

 1918, T. G. Harbison (Nos. 34 and 57; tall late-blooming species). 

 Richmond County: Augusta, sand hills, swamp, July, 1904, 

 A . Cuthbert. BryanCounty: boggy places in sand hills of Canoochee 

 River near Groveland, June 22, 1903, R. M. Harper (No. 1850). 

 Screven County : near Oliver, July 9, 1901, A. H. Curtiss (No. 6837; 

 8 to 12 feet high). Appling County: swamps near Baxley, August 

 10, 1901, Biltmore Herb. No. 4823 (Nat. Herb. 980,173). Lowndes 

 County: Ousley, October 21, 1910, T. G. Harbison (Nos. 244, 248). 

 Randolph County: Cuthbert, December 1, 1919, T. G. Harbison 

 (Nos. 31, 32; low shrub). Decatur County: moist pine barrens 

 near Climax, August 13, 1903, R. M. Harper (No. 1929). 



South Carolina. Beaufort County: Bluffton, 1893, /. H. 

 Mellichamp. 



This variety differs from the type only in the densely grayish pubescent winter- 

 buds with usually less numerous and only mucronate, not aristate scales from the 

 type. It approaches thus in its winter-buds R. viscosum and may be considered an 

 intermediate form not only on account of its characters but also in regard to its 

 distribution, occupying as it does an area between R. viscosum and typical R. ser- 

 rulatum. I have not yet seen any specimens of this variety from Florida or from 

 localities west of Georgia, while typical R. serrulatum does not seem to extend farther 



