Michael Catt, 83 years old, who lived nearly 75 years about three miles west of Decker on the border of the cypress swamp in the south part of Knox County, told me that he is positive that the tupelo gum was an occasional tree in the cypress swamp west of Decker.

=Fraxinus caroliniana= Miller. Water Ash. This species was included in Coulter's Catalogue of Indiana Plants upon the authority of Dr. Schneck.

It is a.s.serted that specimens were sent to Missouri Botanical Gardens for verification. The writer has carefully examined all the specimens of _Fraxinus_ in the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and all of Schneck's specimens in the herbarium are now correctly named _Fraxinus profunda_.

Since this species is not in our range it should be dropped from our flora.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Ind. Geol. Rept. 22:93:1898.

[2] Amer. Mid. Nat. 3:70:1913.

[3] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1901:297:1902.

[4] See discussion under Abies balsamea on page 290.

[5] Proc. Ind. Hort. Soc. 1892:53:1893.

[6] Ind. Geol. Surv. Rept. 5:338:1874.

[7] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1897:173:1898.

[8] Baird & Taylor's reference to this species is regarded as a cultivated tree or as an error: Manual Public Schools of Clark County, Ind. 1878-9, page 62.

[9] Hamilton County by Wilson, no doubt from a cultivated tree.

[10] Contributed by C. R. Ball, Bureau Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., except the genus Populus.

[11] Coulter's record for Gibson County by Schneck is regarded as an error because Schneck himself does not report it, and there was no specimen in the Schneck herbarium.

[12] Deam's record in Rept. Ind. St. Board Forestry 1911:124:1912 was a ma.n.u.script error.

[13] Ind. Geol. Rept. 17:263:1892.

[14] Sargent in Bot. Gaz. Vol. 64: 58:1918.

[15] Heimlich in Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1917:437:439:1918 credits most of my records jointly with Prof. G. N. Hoffer. This is an error. On my invitation Prof. Hoffer accompanied me nine days in the field doing mycological work. While he gave me valuable a.s.sistance in collecting during these days, his a.s.sistance and responsibility stopped there and he never asked or expected to be considered joint author. Again on our trip we collected only in Daviess, Gibson, Fountain, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Pike and Sullivan Counties.

[16] Sargent 1.c.

[17] Andre Michaux's Travels 1793-1796.

[18] Flora of Jefferson County. Ind. Geol. Surv. Rept. 2:283:1871.

[19] Flora of Jefferson County. Ind. Geol. Surv. Rept. 6:265:1875.

[20] Bot. Gaz. Vol. 66:236:1918.

[21] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1917:435:1918.

[22] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1917:435:1918.

[23] Bot. Gaz. 66:237:1918.

[24] Bot. Gaz. 66:244:1918.

[25] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1917:436:1918.

[26] Trees and Shrubs 2:208-209:1913 and Bot. Gaz. 66:247:1918.

[27] Bot. Gaz. 66:249:1918.

[28] In 1916 in Allen County along Cedar Creek, I measured a specimen that was 15.6 dm. in circ. b.h. with a clear bole of about 3m.

[29] Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1917:443:1918.

[30] Ind. Geol. Rept. 18:61:1894.

[31] Minnesota Bot. Studies 4:454:1916.

[32] Sargent in Bot. Gaz. Vol. 65:435:1918.

[33] This hybrid was described in the Report of the Indiana State Board of Forestry for 1911.

[34] Elliott: Histological variations of _Quercus Muhlenbergii_.

University of Kansas Science Bul. 9:45:54:8 Plates:1914.

[35] Gorby: Trees and shrubs indigenous to Miami County, Ind. Geol.

Rept. 16:168-170:1889.

[36] Wilson: Flora of Hamilton and Marion Counties, Indiana. Proc. Ind.

Acad. Science. 1894:156-176:1895.

[37] Higley and Raddin: Flora of Cook County Illinois, and a part of Lake County Indiana. Bul. Chicago Acad. Sci. Vol. 2: 106:1891

[38] Nieuwland: Notes on our local flora. Amer. Mid. Nat. Vol.

3:230:1914.

[39] Michaux: North American Silva. J. J. Smith's Trans. Vol. 1:37:1871.

[40] Nieuwland: Notes on our local flora. Amer. Mid. Nat. Vol.

3:230:1914.

[41] Prof. B. Shimek told me that recently a few trees were found about 30 miles west of Iowa City, Iowa.

[42] Sargent: Notes on North American Trees. Bot. Gaz. Vol. 65:424:1918.