4900] STUDIES IN CRATA:GUS 337 
petiole, bright green on the upper surface, paler below, fading 
inthe autumn to tones of yellow and brown, or with occasional 
_ dashes of red: flowers, which appear in the vicinity of Rome, 
_ Georgia (type locality), during the last of April or first of May, 
aid when the leaves are nearly grown, borne in pubescent, 
 @landular-bracteate 3—6-flowered corymbs; pedicels 5-15™™ 
long, sparsely pubescent, bearing one or more pectinately- 
_ §andular, caducous bractlets: calyx obconic, usually with a few 
- soft hairs, the divisions 6-8™™" long, glandular-serrate: stamens 
tormally 20 : Styles 2-5, commonly 3, surrounded at the base 
with pale hairs: fruit large, globose, 12-18™" in diameter, red, 
- Ted and yellow, or yellowish-red, ripening and falling after the 
middle of September, the flesh thick, soft, and pleasant to the 
; laste. nutlets usually 3, hard and bony, 7-g™ long, 4-5" 
thick, measured from the back to the inner angle, the lateral 
faces nearly plane and the back ridged and grooved. 
‘i Crategus sororia is related to C, africa above proposed and to C, flava 
0, 4.¢. From the former it may be separated by the more numerous 
er fruit and calyx segments, and coarser seeds; while from the 
pecies it differs from the accepted figures and descriptions which 
tawn from specimens in cultivation in Europe, in the shape of the 
he pubescent corymbs and petioles. The proposed species is 
represented on wooded hills, slopes, and rocky exposures, and in 
rom northwestern Georgia and adjacent Alabama southward to 
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have been q 
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abundantly 
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~ Plotida. 
pte material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
: wi tet Alleghaniensis, n. sp—A large shrub 2-4" tall, or 
ti uty a small tree 5™ in height: bark gray, sometimes 
ay brown or much blackened: branches ascending, 
he slender, gray or reddish-brown spines 1.5-4™ long, 
— Sason 4 forming an oval or round head; the growth of or 
- fale le othed with reddish-brown bark and marked by smal ; 
- * cels: leaves ovate, oval, or nearly orbicular in outline, 
including the petiole, 1.5—6™ wide, very sharply and 
serrate and incisely lobed, acute at the apex, either 
“"rowed or rounded at the base, or on vigorous shoots 
* and prolonged into a margined, glandular petiole 
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2 long, 
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