1990] STUDIES IN CRATAGUS 339 
base with pale hairs: fruit which ripens and falls after the first 
_ of October, globose or slightly oval, g-13™" wide, 9-15™™ long, 
dull red to greenish-red when fully ripe, sometimes, when more 
_ exposed, brighter, and frequently presenting surfaces of russet- 
ted; the cavity 3-5™" broad and nearly as deep, surrounded by 
the remnants of the stamens: nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 
_ &9"" long, 3.5-5™™ measured dorso-ventrally with the lateral 
faces nearly plane and the back grooved and ridged: leaves thin 
_ ‘subcoriaceous, sparsely pubescent when young, scon smooth, 
. bright green on the upper surface, paler below, showing 4-7 
| pairs of prominent veins, from obovate to ovate in outline, occa- 
Sionally on strong shoots round-ovate, 2.5-12™ long, including 
the petiole, 1-6" wide, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed 
= the base into a narrowly winged and remotely glandular 
; Fnic 7™"-4™ long ; the borders irregularly or doubly serrate 
4 = icisely lobed, with ‘minutely glandular-tipped serratures: 
Stipules linear or linear-lanceolate, pectinately-glandular, cadu- 
| “us: bark of the trunk varying from ashy-gray to light-brown, 
‘ veitly fissured: branches spreading or ascending, bearing 
) aa stout, dark chestnut-brown, or gray spines 3-7" long, 
3 rthe older branches and frequently the trunk armed with 
a ring much branched spines of greater size; the bark reddish- 
_ ™1,marked by small, pale lenticels: buds globular, bright 
dish-brown, 
j of "eda venusta is abundantly represented in the Red Mountain region 
| of the . : was apparently first discovered by Mr. C. gr 
3 ld oii and later by Professor C. 5. Be Se 
Bead - The new species is closely related to C. £4 3 
| oa ee oc... nly in the more numerous-flowered ede ae 
| ind the oo” anthers, narrower and pine: me 
The ae a obovate and elongated outline : 8 
Crate-eus i: es Is preserved in the Biltmore ns oe i ae 
More than ae Shei, n. sp.— A tree seldom attaining a mee a 
Note stems - ‘2 commonly a large branching po” ee 
Nidish brown ark of the trunk and older branches ps et see 
Bor, Gay _ Smooth on the smaller plants, fssur 
arg i+ 1899. 
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