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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
ROSACEZ. 
Carolina, where it is common up to elevations of twenty-five hundred feet above the sea and to eastern 
Tennessee. 
Crategus Vailie was named for Miss Anna Murray Vail,’ who gathered it in May, 1890, on the 
banks of the Roanoke River near Roanoke, Virginia.” 
1 Anna Murray Vail (January 7, 1865), the librarian of the New 
York Botanical Garden and the author of a number of phytogra- 
phical papers published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 
was born in New York, the daughter of David Olyphant Vail, for 
many years a merchant in China, and through her mother a de- 
scendant of the first Patroon of Rensselaerwyck through Hendrick 
Van Rensselaer of the Greenbush Manor. 
? The oldest specimen of Crategus Vailie that I have seen is 
preserved in the Gray Herbarium, and was collected by Asa Gray 
on the French Broad River, probably in 1841 or 1842. This species 
was gathered by C. E. Faxon at Kittrell’s Spring, North Caro- 
lina, in 1873; and by C.S. Sargent in September, 1885, on the 
Little Tennessee River and on Callisaga Creek, North Carolina, in 
September, 1886. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pirate DCXCII. 
Cratmeus VAILIZ. 
- A flowering branch, natural size. 
- Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A fruit divided transversely, enlarged. 
1 
2 
3. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
4 
5 
. A nutlet, side view, enlarged. 
