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where it is common. 
it was collected in May, 1899.’ 
1 Thomas Grant Harbison (April 23, 1862) was born in Lewis- 
burg, Union County, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public 
schools and acquired a love for plants from one of his teachers, 
Mr. C. E. Edmonds, an enthusiastic amateur botanist. After 
leaving school Mr. Harbison taught in the public schools of Union 
County for seven years, pursuing at the same time studies in 
science under a private tutor. In the spring of 1886 he made a 
botanical tour on foot along the Appalachian Mountains from Penn- 
sylvania to Georgia, and in the autumn of that year settled at 
Highlands, North Carolina, where for several years he conducted a 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
ROSACE. 
It has been named for Mr. T. G. Harbison ' of the Biltmore Herbarium, by whom 
private school, which was afterwards removed to Waynesville, 
North Carolina. 
nected with the herbarium on Mr. George W. Vanderbilt’s estate 
at Biltmore, North Carolina, where he is employed as a botanical 
In the spring of 1897 Mr. Harbison became con- 
collector. 
? In the Engelmann herbarium there is a specimen of Crategus 
Harbisoni collected at Nashville in September, 1877, by Dr. A. 
Gattinger, who was therefore probably the discoverer of this spe- 
cies. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate DCXCI. Cratacaus HARBISONI. 
1. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
ro) 
3. A calyx-lobe, enlarged. 
4 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Cross section of a fruit showing the nutlets, natural size. 
. A nutlet, side view, enlarged. 
5 
6. Vertical section of a fruit, natural size. 
7 
8 
. A nutlet, rear view, enlarged. 
