100 Trmnksske Floua. 



*C. Margaretta Ashe. Nashville. Charlotte Pike. April, 

 I>lay. 



fC. macrosperma Ashe. Frequent on Lookout Mt. 



xGattingeri Ashe. Nashville. 



C. collina Chapm. Banks of Cumberland River, near wa- 

 terworks. 



C. Vailliae Britton. ,Wolf Creek. Cocke County. J. H. 

 Kearney. 



C. populifolia Elliott. Lebanon Pike. Nashville. Cowan. 



COTONEASTER Med. 



Cotoneaster Pyracantha (L.) Spach. Everc^reen thorn. 

 Thickets near Hyde's Ferry, Nashville. Introduced. May. 



DRUPACE.^ DC. 

 PRUNUS L. 



Prunus Americana Marsh. Wild yellow or red plum. O. 



S. April, May. Fruit ripe in July, August. 



P. hortulana Bailey. AVild goose plum. O. S. Formerly 

 believed to be a hybrid between P. Americana and Chickasa. 

 April, May. 



*C. Margaretta Ashe. Small tree, 4-5 m. high, sometimes a shrub; 

 branches, flexuous geniculate, thornless, or only sparingly beset with 

 short, slender thorns; leaves, glandless membranaceous, bright green 

 both sides, broadly rhombic to broader than long, with 3-6 prominent, 

 straight veins, obtusely serrate, with 3-5 pairs shallow lobes; flowers, 

 in 7-12 flowered corymbs; petals .orbicular; stamens. 15-20; styles. 2-3: 

 fruit, 1 cm. diameter, nearly round, reddish or orange. 



tC. macrosperma Ashe. (Journal Elisha Mitchell See, Decem- 

 ber, 1900.) Small tree 5-7 m. In height, with wide-spreading branches, 

 armed with numerous short, very stout, 1-2 cm. long, red brown to 

 black thorns; leaves, membranaceous, but firm, dark green above, paler 

 and sparingly glaucous or whitish beneath, deltoid or broadly oval at 

 the apex, rounded or subcordate, with a narrow sinus at base, 3-6 cm. 

 long, 2-5 wide, sharply serrate to the base; flowers, in 4-9 flowered sim- 

 ple corymbs on slender petioles; divisions of calyx, lanceolate, short, 

 3-5 mm. long, persistent and coloring with the fruit; styles, 3-4; sta- 

 mens, 5-10; fruit, 12-18 mm. diameter; flesh, thick and mealy, falling 

 in September; nutlets, 3-5. 



jGattingeri Ashe. (Journal Elisha Mitchell Soc, December. 1900.) 

 Twigs, glabrous, dark purple brown, sparingly glaucous, armed with 

 numerous thorns, 3-4 cm. long; leaves, glabrous, dark green above, paler 

 beneath, the blades oblong, ovate, or deltoid in outline. 2-7 cm. long. 

 2-5 cm. wide, rounded, truncate, or subcordate at base, attenuate at the 

 apex, finely but acuminately serrate, generally with 3-5 prominent 

 lobes; petioles, slender, roughened above, with 1-2 pairs of glands; 

 corymbs, few-flowered, the pedicels slender and glabrous. 1-1.5 cm. 

 long; calyx lobes, short, triangular, glabrous; stamens, 20; fruit, dark 

 red, sparingly pruinose, globular, 8-11 mm. thick, generally capped by 

 the stalked calyx lobes, persistent until after the foliage has fallen. 



