338 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ NOVEMBER 
5™™—2°™ long, bright green on the upper surface, slightly paler 
below and with 3—4 prominent pairs of veins, sparsely pubescent 
when young, especially on the upper surface, soon becoming 
glabrous: flowers, which open in the vicinity of Valley Head, 
Alabama (type locality), the first of May, disposed in simple, 
3-6-flowered corymbs ; pedicels 1-2 long, bearing one or more 
small, linear, or lanceolate, pectinately-glandular caducous 
bractlets: calyx obconic, glabrous, the divisions 4—-6™ long, 
glandular-serrate: petals 7-9™ broad, g—12™™ long, the claw at 
the base narrow: stamens normally 10, 4-6™™ long, the anthers 
purple: styles 2-5, mostly 3-4, surrounded at the base with 
pale hairs: fruit, which ripens after the middle of September, 
globular-pyriform, red, 9-14™™ long, 8—12™™ broad: nutlets 2-5, 
usually 3—4, hard and bony, 5—7™™ long, about 3” thick meas- 
ured from the back to inner angle, the lateral faces nearly plane 
and the back grooved and ridged. 
Crataegus Alleghaniensis is abundant on Lookout mountain above Valley 
Head, Alabama, growing on rocky exposures or in the shade of oaks and 
pines. It is related to C. africa above proposed, from which it may be dis- 
tinguished by the less glandular foliage and inflorescence, the form and 
darker color of the fruit, purple anthers, and the sharply serrate borders of 
the leaf-blades. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
Crategus venusta n. sp.—A tree seldom more than 8” tall, 
or frequently a large branching shrub growing on rocky a 
or occasionally on the banks of small streams: flowers, W 
Alabama 
open about April 20, in the vicinity of Birmingham, ee. 
(type locality), and when the leaves are half grown, 2-2.5 ei 
occasionally more in diameter, disposed in 3-6- flowered ae : 
pedicels 1.5-2™ long, glabrous, bearing two or three pectina | 
glandular, deciduous bractlets which vary from 5" ' 1.5 ae 
length and from 2-4™" in width: calyx obconic, — 3 
segments acute, 4-6™ long, 1.5-3™™ wide, glandile . 
often pectinately-glandular below the middle: petal 2 an 
orbicular, rather broader than long, g-12™™ wide, 8-10 
with a short and broad claw at the base: sta 
4-8™™ long, the anthers yellow : pistils 3-5, surrounde 
