640 Eggleston : Ne\y North American Crataegi 



Phantom Lake" and Sargossa at Toyahvale P. O. It is my recol- 

 lection that we went about five miles south before we struck the 

 hills, but, whatever the distance, the Crataegus was found quite 

 abundantly at the southeast foot of the first hill we reached, a 

 round-topped hill on the west of the road just where the road 

 makes a sharp turn from south to east. 



" South of the hill is a level meadow, a part of which is in culti- 

 vation, while to the north and west the country is almost barren 

 desert, and east of this hill is a still higher hill which is the begin- 

 ning of a long range of high hills. The specimens were taken 

 about a hundred yards west from the road, where it runs through 



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a fenced lane In a depression between the hills/* 



Crataegus Brittonii sp. nov. 



C. Vailiae Beadle in Small, Fl. Southeast U. S. 561. 1903. 

 Eggleston, in Gray's Manual ed. 7, 467. 1908. Not C. 



Vailiae Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 53. 1897. 



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Leaves ovate or broadly ovate, 2-4 cm, long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, 

 acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate, sometimes abruptly so, at 

 the base, cr'enate or crenate-serrate with two or three pairs of shal- 

 low crenate lobes, membranaceous, rather dark green and shin- 

 ing, somewhat impressed-veined and slightly appressed-pubescent 

 becoming glabrous above, paler and tomentose along the veins 

 below; petioles 5-10 mm. long, rou gh -tomentose ; corymbs 1-6- 

 flowered, flowers about 15 mm. wide, pedicels and calyx-tube 

 tomentose ; calyx-lobes glabrous below, sometimes slightly pubes- 

 cent above, ovate, obtuse, laciniate, three or four of the apical teeth 

 often equal ; stamens about 20, anthers white ; styles 5,*tomentose 

 about the base; fruit globose or short-pyriform, 8-12 mm. thick, 

 reddish-brown, slightly pubescent, falHng about September 15th; 

 calyx prominent, calyx-lobes reflexed, persistent ; flesh firm ; nut- 

 lets 5, 5-6 mm. long, grooved on the back, with a calyx-scar, nest 

 of nutlets 7~8 mm. thick. Vegetative twigs light brown, slightly 

 tomentose becoming glabrous, armed with numerous straight, 

 slender thorns 2-5 cm. long. Tall ascending branched shrubs, 

 sometimes 3 or 4 m. high. 



Type, Eggleston 4.134, Biltmore, North Carolina, Sept. 15-19, 

 1908, altitude 660 m. (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.) 



Other specimens used in description : 



Biltmore Herb. 5<?(?/*, Biltmore, North Carolina, May 21 and 

 Sept. 18, 1898.^ Biltmore Herb., May 15 and Sept. 17, 1902. 



