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new species is fully justified. In this, and other papers which 
will appear as suitable material accumulates, I propose to deal 
with new forms coming to my attention, and to characterize the 
published species, with which are now confounded others with 
constant and widely different features. 
Crategus Biltmoreana, n. sp.—A branching shrub, 1-5™ tall, 
growing in dry or rocky woodlands: flowers, which appear 
when the leaves are almost fully grown, white, 2-2.5™ in diam- 
eter when expanded, produced in simple, pubescent, 3-7- 
flowered corymbs with lanceolate, pectinately-glandular, cadu- 
cous bracts; they are borne on strict, pubescent pedicels which 
vary from 7™"-2.5™ in length and open in the vicinity of Bilt- 
more, N. C. (type locality), about the twentieth of May: calyx 
obconic, pubescent or tomentose on the outside, with lanceolate, 
dentate or pectinate, glandular lobes about 5"" long which are 
reflexed after anthesis: petals broadly-obovate or nearly orbic- 
ular in outline, 8-12™, contracted near the base into short 
claws: stamens 10, shorter than the petals; the anthers pale 
yellow: styles 3-5, shorter than the stamens, surrounded at the 
base with pale hairs: fruit, which ripens and falls at the end of 
September or early in October, yellow, greenish-yellow or some- 
times orange, the parts exposed to the sun being rosy-cheeked 
or diffused with red, containing from 3-5 nutlets; they are 
depressed-globose, bluntly angled, 10-15" broad, 10-12" 
high, the cavity broad, 3-5™", and deep, 2-3", surrounded vy 
the calyx lobes and portions of the filaments: nutlets thick 
walled, 5-7" in greatest diameter, 3-5" measured dorso- 
ventrally, a volume of 125° containing about 1858 thoroughly 
cleaned, dry seeds; they are deeply grooved on the back and 
display a prominent ridge near the middle, the inner faces being 
nearly plane: leaves 2-6™ wide, 3-10™ long including the 
petiole, or occasionally larger, ovate, or round-ovate, acute at 
the apex; rounded, truncate or on vigorous shoots subcordate, 
but usually wedge-shaped at the base and prolonged into 4 
slightly winged or margined petiole 1-3 long and bearing, 45 
does the extreme base of the leaf, a few dark-colored stalked 
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