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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
ROSACES. 
to five in number and are prominently ridged on the back, with high rounded ridges, and about a quarter 
of an inch long. 
Crategus Boyntoni inhabits the banks of streams, the borders of old fields and upland woods in 
the southern Appalachian foothill region from southern Virginia to northern Georgia and Alabama, 
southeastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee, sometimes ascending to elevations of 3000 feet above 
the level of the sea. 
First distinguished by Mr. C. D. Beadle! in the neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, where 
this tree is abundant, it was named by him for Mr. F. E. Boynton” 
1 Chauncey Delos Beadle (August 5, 1866) was born in the city 
of St. Catharines, Ontario, of New England parentage. His father, 
Delos White Beadle, a son of Dr. Chauncey Beadle, was a lawyer 
in the city of New York, and later a nurseryman at St. Catharines. 
His mother, Harriet Converse Steele, was the eldest daughter of 
Hon. Jason Steele of Windsor, Vermont. C.D. Beadle was edu- 
cated in the public and private schools of St. Catharines, the Agri- 
cultural College of Guelph, Ontario, and at Cornell University. 
Being obliged in order to support himself to leave Cornell, after a 
residence of two years at the university, Mr. Beadle found occupa- 
tion in nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, devoting 
his spare time to the study of botany and the formation of an 
herbarium, and in 1890 having been called to Biltmore, North 
Carolina, he was placed in charge of the planting operations on the 
estate of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt. At Biltmore he has estab- 
lished for Mr. Vanderbilt an important herbarium and botanical 
library and large nurseries, and now, in addition to his duties as 
head of the botanical and nursery departments of the estate, he is 
superintendent of the home grounds and gardens. During his 
residence at Biltmore Mr. Beadle has made the most of excellent 
opportunities for exploring the flora of the southern states ; he has 
rediscovered either himself or with the aid of his collectors many 
plants which had not before been seen for many years, and has 
found a number of entirely undescribed species particularly in the 
genus Crategus, to which he has devoted special attention for the 
past three years. Mr. Beadle has published the results of these 
studies in The Botanical Gazette and in the Biltmore Botanical Studies, 
a Journal of Botany, the first number of which appeared in 1901. 
Through his efforts many rare southern plants are now common in 
gardens, and the Biltmore nurseries under his direction are becom- 
ing a potent factor in American horticulture. 
2 Frank Ellis Boynton (July 19, 1859) was born in Hyde Park, 
Vermont. When he was five years old his family moved to Vine- 
land, New Jersey, where he was educated in the public schools and 
then learned the carpenter’s trade, at which he worked in New 
England until 1881, when he moved to Highlands, North Carolina, 
in search of a milder climate. Mr. Boynton’s early taste for botany 
now had good opportunity for development, and he began to gather 
specimens for exchange and plants and seeds for sale, soon becom- 
ing a recognized authority on the flora of the southern Appalachian 
region. In 1893 he left Highlands to assume a position in the 
Biltmore Herbarium, where he has been active and remarkably 
successful in increasing the knowledge of the southern Appalachian 
plants, and where he is still employed. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Piate DCL. Crataaus Boyntont. 
oF OD 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
- Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A fruit divided transversely, enlarged. 
. A nutlet divided transversely, much enlarged. 
