336 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER — 
base, the divisions 3-5™™ long, glandular-serrate, or pectinately- 
glandular: petals rather broader than long, g-13"™ by 8-12", 
with a short broad claw at the base: stamens 10, 5—8™™ long, the 
anthers light yellow: styles 3-5, surrounded at the base with 
pale hairs: fruit globose, 9-14™™ in diameter, red or orange-red, 
ripening and falling after the middle of September, the flesh 
thick, yellowish, pleasant to the taste: nutlets 3-5, hard and 
bony, 6-8™™ long, 3-4m™m measured dorso-ventrally, the back 
ridged and grooved and the lateral faces nearly plane, a volume 
of 125° containing about 1598 clean and dry seeds. 
Crategus aprica has been confounded with C. fava Ait. from which it 
differs in the shape and color of the fruit. The new species is abundantly 
represented in the mountainous region of North Carolina, and has been found 4 
in similar situations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, inhabiting sunny 
exposures in dry, rocky, or clayey soils. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore herbarium. 
Crateegus sororia, n. sp.—A tree 5—7™ tall, with a trunk I-15" 
in diameter, dividing two or three meters above ground into 
several stout, ascending or spreading branches, which form an 
oval or round head; or usually smaller, 3—4™ in height, forming 
a large shrub with one or more stems: bark gray, tinged with 
brown or nearly black, furrowed and broken on the surface into 
small, persistent scales: branchlets armed with gray oF chestaut- 
brown spines 1.5—3.5°™ long : buds globose, bright reddish-brow?: 
leaves 2-6™ long, including the petiole, I-3™ broad, or on Vif" 
orous shoots sometimes 6™ broad, obovate, round-ovate, 
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nearly orbicular in outline, or on the shoots even pete at 
long, with a truncate or subcordate base, acute OF dae 
e 
the apex, either gradually narrowed or abruptly contract 
base and prolonged into a margined, glandular petiole 5~ isel¥ 
long, the borders sharply and irregularly serrate and Bee 
lobed, especially above the middle, the serratures es yx the 
apiculate ; sparingly pubescent when young (at eae ni ith 
petiole, midrib, and principal veins), becoming glabrous: ing the 
a few hairs in the axils of the prominent veins and border! 
* Hort. Kew 2: 169. 17809. 
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