STUDIES IN CRATAGUS. II! 
C. D. BEADLE. 
Crategus aprica, n. sp.—A large branching shrub, with one 
_ several stems, 3-5™ tall, or occasionally arborescent and 
. attaining a height of 6-7" under favorable conditions: bark of 
| he trunk and larger stems dark gray or nearly black, often con- 
 §picuously furrowed, the surface being broken into small, irregu- 
lar, persistent, plate-like scales: branches ascending, armed with 
- Stout, either straight or slightly curved spines 2-6™ long, which 
: ae frequently branched and of greater size on the trunk and 
larger branches; branchlets at first villose-pubescent, but ulti- 
_-‘Mately glabrous, marked by numerous small, pale lenticels, the 
: bark reddish-brown, after the first winter changing to gray, with 
‘ges of red or brown, the whole forming a compact, oval, or 
fund head: winter buds globose, bright reddish-brown, the 
_ Miter scales of the terminal ones thick and pointed: leaves thin 
‘: ‘9 subcoriaceous in texture, obovate, rhombic-ovate, or orbicular 
outline, T.5-7™ long including the petiole, 1-5™ wide, the 
a ‘ders dentate or crenate-dentate and conspicuously glandular, 
ae or less lobed near the acute apex, or on vigorous shoots. 
Sa lobed, especially below the middle of the blade, 
i“ Y Narrowed but sometimes rounded at the base and pro- 
. ae amargined petiole 7™™—2™ long, which, like the base 
: ea bears numerous black colored glands ; stipules linear, 
-tinate} neeolate, or on strong shoots foliaceous and lunate, Pee 
a ¥-glandular or glandular-serrate, caducous: flowers, which 
“They a = vicinity of Biltmore, North Carolina (type seer 
ia . ata are nearly grown, borne in 5-6 flow es 
: egg Peecent, bracteate corymbs ; pedicels 1-2 pt 
deciduous ay bearing one or two small pectinately-glandular, 
ao tactlets: calyx obconic, pubescent, at least near the 
“ag from Bor. Gaz. : 
28: 417. 1899. 
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