548 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Type locality: "Ohio, Mr. Lea! Indiana, Dr. Clapp! Kentucky, Dr. Short! Texas, 

 Dntrnmond." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crataegus biltmoreana Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28 : 405. 1899. BILTMORE THORN. 



A shrub 3 to 15 feet high, with a reddish brown bark and chestnut-brown or red- 

 dish brown branches, stout, slightly curved spines 1 to 2 inches long, and large 

 flowers in simple 5 to 7 Howered pubescent corymbs. The leaves are thin, inembra- 

 naceous, roughish but rather inconspicuously pubescent, green above, paler beneath, 

 ovate to round ovate, usually wedge-shaped at the base, acutely incised, or slightly 

 5 to 9 lobed, sharply and irregularly serrate to near the base, bearing, like the 

 petiole, a few dark-colored stalked glands. The flowers are borne on strict pubes- 

 cent pedicels ; petals orbicular, contracted into a short claw ; stamens 10, anthers yel- 

 low; styles 3 to 5, calyx obconic, pubescent or torinentose, with the dentate or pec- 

 tinate glandular lobes 3 lines long; fruit yellow or yellowish green to orange, con- 

 taining from 3 to 5 depressed-globose obtusely angled nutlets. 



Usually confounded with Eastern forms of C'. ntollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele, from 

 which it may be known by its smaller size, simple corymbs, and later time of ilow- 

 ering, and by the color and texture of its fruit. 



Carolinian area. From Pennsylvania and Virginia to eastern Tennessee, North 

 Carolina, and Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Dry, rocky woodlands. Delvalb County, Lookout 

 Mountain ( Beadle, May, 1900). Flowers after the middle of May. 



Type locality: " Vicinity of Biltmore, N. C." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crataegus tomentosa chapmaiii Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25 : 360. 1898. 



Crataegus tomentosa microcarpa Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 139. 1897. Not. C. miorocarpa Lindl. 

 1836. 



Chap. Fl. 1. c. 



Carolinian area. Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Jackson County, Sand Mountain 

 (C. D. Beadle). Etowah County, Gadsdeu ((/. C. Boynton). Small tree or shrub. 

 Flowers in May. 



Type locality: " River banks near Rome, Ga.' 



iv iv 01 i tit ii i\ > iii-.n J.VU1UO, VJTUI 



Biltmore Herb. 



Crataegus crus-galli L. Sp. PL 1 : 476. 1753. COCKSPUR THORN. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 548. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 166. Chap. Fl. 127. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 107. Sargent, Silv. N. A. 4 : 91, 1. 178. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern Ontario, Michigan, and Missouri, 

 south to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Central prairies. Wooded banks, copses, in close 

 damp soil. Morgan, Madison, Cullman, Montgomery, Dallas, and Hale Counties. 

 Flowers white, April; fruit ripe October, dull red. Small tree, 15 to 25 feet. Fre- 

 quent in the valleys and prairies. 



Type locality not given. In L. Sp. PL ed. 2 : " Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crataegus collina Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 140. 1897. 



Carolinian area. Southeastern Tennessee, North Carolina, and northern Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region 1o Lower hills. Rocky and gravelly hills. Dekalb 

 County. Jefferson County, Red Mountain near Birmingham (Saryent). Tuscaloosa 

 County, rocky banks of Warrior River. Etowah County, Gadsdeu (C. 1). JJeadle). 

 Jackson County, Sand Mountain (JHltmore Herb.), Mobile County (Biltmore Herb.). 

 Flowers April. Fruit mature October, red. Not rare. 



Tall shrub or small tree. 



Type locality: "Rocky hillsides, north Georgia and Tennessee." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Crataegus mohri Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28 : 416. 1899. 



A tree 18 to 30 feet high, with a slender trunk 4 to 8 inches in diameter, unarmed 

 or sparsely spiny, or in unfavorable situations a large erect branching shrub, the 

 branches ascending or nearly horizontal, forming an oblong or occasionally a round 

 compact head, the brauchlets and smaller branches zigzag with slightly curved or 

 straight spines from 1 to 2 inches long. Leaves cuneate-obovate, or on vigorous 

 shoots from ovate to orbicular, If to 2f inches long and | to 1 inches wide, acute or 

 rounded at the apex and contracted below into winged or margined petioles from 4 



