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North Carolina. Wayne County, near Goldsboro, T. G. Harbison, \\n\\ 10 and 

 May ^5, 1!)19. 



Georgia. I)(»u<,^lirrty County, near Albany, T. 0, Ilarhison, April IG, 1917; D.^- 

 catur County, Douglas Pond, near Baiuhiidgc, (I /?. Shau\ Marcli lo, 1907, T. G. 

 Harbison. May '■29, 1909, Miiy 8, 1919. 



Flouida. Jackson County, Cottoudalc, T, G. llarhisoiu March 9, May ^8, 191G, 

 Marcli 18, 19, ^20, 1917, Round Lake, T, G. Harbison, March 8. 9, 18, May ^,5, ^27, 

 1917; Gadsden County, Quincy, /?. M. Harper, March 15, 1910, T. G. Harhinon, 

 March 10, 191 (i. 



Alabama. Houston Comity, near Dothan, T. G. Harbison, Mareli 17, May 23, 

 1917. 



SILVICOLAE 



Crataegus drymopila, nov. nom. — Crataegus' silricola Beadle in Bot. 

 Gaz., XVIII. 411 (1809), not Candoger. 



In 1H71 Gandogcr j)ul)lished with a complete technical description in the 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii. 448, a Crataegus ,silrici)hi, a native of France, 

 and this name is not therefore available for the species from our southern 

 states. 



MOLLES 



Crataegus meridionalis, n, sj). 



Leaves ellii)tic to ovate or slightly obovate, acuminate, cuneate at the 

 entire l>ase, and coarsely often doubly serrate a])ove witli ])ro;id straight 

 glandular teeth, coaled l)eIo\v with Iioary^ tomentuin and covered above 

 with short white hairs when they unfold, more than half grown when the 

 flowers open from the first to the middle of Ai)ril, and at maturity thin, 

 yellow-green and sca1)rate on the upper surface, paler and villose-i)u])escent 

 on the lower surface, esjiecially on the slender midrib and i)riniary veins, 

 7 8 cm. long, and 4 cm. wide; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at 

 apex, densely villose-pubescent with white hairs early in the season, becom- 

 hig glal)rous or nearly glabrous, 1.5-2 cm. in length; leaves on the end of 

 vigorous shoots broad-ovate to broad-elliptic, more coarsely serrate, occa- 

 sionally slightly divideil into short broad lateral lobes, often 8-9 cm. long 

 and 7 cm. wide, with a stout midrib, and ])etioles broadly wing-margined 

 at apex and 1 1.5 cm. in length. Flowers 1.5-2 cm. in diameter, on stout 

 pedicels thickly covered like the narrow obconic calyx-tube with matted 

 silvery wliitc^ hairs, in broad compact many-flowered villose corymbs, with 

 conspicuous glandular-serrate villose bracts and bractlets mostly ])ersisteiit 

 until after ^Ihe flowers o])en; calyxdobes narrow, acuminate, laciniately 

 glandular-scrrale, slightly villose-pubescent when the buds oi)en; stamens 

 20; anthers white; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a broad ring of white 

 tomentum. Fruit ripening from the middle to the end of September, on 

 elongated slender pubcrulous pedicels, in few-fruited drooping red-slemnu^d 

 clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, rounded at the ends, scarlet, 1-1.2 cm., 

 in diameter, the calyx jiersistent, much enlarged, with erect or spreading 

 conspicuous lobes; flcsli thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, rounded at base, 

 acute at apex, ridged on the back with a high rounded ridge, 7-8 cm, long. 



