98 Tennessek Flora. 



*C. Sargenti Beadle. S. E. Tenn. Shrub from 2 to 6 feet 

 high. April. 



fC. Boyntoni Beadle. Tree or shrub. C. rotundifolia. 

 Bork. E. Tenn. Clarion. S. W. Va. J. K. Small. Small 

 tree. April. 



iC. Austro-Montana Beadle. Cumberland Mts. E. and M. 

 Tenn. May. 



§C. Harbisoni Beadle. Discovered by T. G. Harbison on 

 the hills near Nashville, 1899. May. Charlotte Pike, 1886, 

 collected by the author. 



**C. Mohri Beadle. Tree, 6-iq ni. tall. Southern part of 

 M. Tenn. May. 



*C. Sargenti Beadle. Shrub or siiiall tree, branches spreading 

 armed with straight or curved spines, 2-7 cm. long, flowers appearing 

 when the leaves are almost fully grown, in generally three-flowered 

 corymbs; calyx, obconic, pubescent; segments, glandular-serrate; di- 

 visions of corolla nearly round; stamens, normally 20; pistils, 3-5; 

 fruit mature at middle September; globose, 10-12 mm. high, orange yel- 

 low; nutlets, 3-5; leaves, thin, glabrous, with 5-7 pairs prominent 

 veins; ovate, acute at apex, rounded or abruptly contracted at base, 

 in a margined or winged petiole, irregularly and doubly serrate, and 

 incisely lobed; stipules, linear or linear-lanceolate. 



tC. Boyntoni Beadle. Shrub or small tree, flowerins- with the 

 expanded leaves, produced in short glandular-bracteate 4-10 flowered 

 corymbs; calyx, obconic, smooth; divisions, acute, glandular, serrate; 

 petals, nearly orbicular. 9-12 mm. diameter; stamens, 10; pistils, 3-5; 

 fruit, dull, yellowish green, depressed globose, angled, 10-14 mm. 

 high, ripening in October; nutlets, 3-5; leaves, subcoriaceous with age, 

 glabrous, with 4-7 pairs of veins, broadly ovate, acute at apex, rounded 

 at the base, sharply serrate, serratures minutely gland-tipped; stipules, 

 linear. 



JC. Austro-Montana Beadle. A straggling shrub. 1-4 m. in height; 

 branches, unarmed; branchlets, pilose-pubescent or tomentose; flow- 

 ers, large in 3-5 flowered corymbs; calyx, broad, obconic, pubescent; 

 divisions, lanceolate; stamens, 10; pistils, 3-5; fruit (which ripens at 

 end of September), large; globose, 12-15 mm. in diameter, bright re9, 

 containing 3-5 nutlets; leaves, orbicular, 3.5-12 mm. long, including 

 the pubescent petioles, pubescent on both surfaces, with 5-7 pairs of 

 veins. 



i;C. Harbisoni Beadle. Tree, 5-8 m. high; leaves, obovate or oval, 

 3-12 cm. long, including the petiole; acute at apex, roughly pubescent 

 on the upper side, densely coated on the lower surface, dark green 

 and lustrous above, pale below; borders, doubly and irregularly ser- 

 rate; calyx, obconic, pubescent; stamens, normally 20; pistils, 3-5; 

 fruit, large, red; globose, 10-13 mm. diameter; nutlets. 3-5; spines of 

 the branches, 3-6 cm. long. 



**C. Mohri Beadle. Leaves, cuneate-obovate. 2-7 cm. Ions:, includ- 

 ing the petioles; acute or rounded at the apex and contracted below 

 into a winged petiole; sharply serrate to the middle; entire, or nearly 

 so, at the base; stipules, linear, caducous; flowers in many-flowered 

 corymbs, which are pubescent at flowering time; calyx, narrow, ob- 

 conic; divisions of corolla, round, ovate, with undulate or erose bor- 

 ders; stamens, 20; fruit globose, 8-9 mm. diameter; nutlets, 3-5. 



