: 1900] STUDIES IN CRATAGUS 341 
_ bythe persistent calyx lobes and remnants of the stamens: nut- 
-Iets 3-5, hard and bony, displaying a prominent ridge on the 
back, or conspicuously grooved and ridged, 6-g™ long, 4-6™" 
_ measured from the back to inner angle, the lateral faces nearly 
~ plane, 
Crategus Ashei has been found in the abandoned fields and woodlands, 
_ ‘Snerally in clayey soil, of Montgomery county, Alabama. The species is 
: tlted to C. Harbison? Beadle,* from which it may be distinguished by the 
3 comparatively simple and less floriferous corymbs, more lucid and less 
; pubescent foliage, and by the attenuated calyx lobes. I take pleasure in 
| *ociating with this species the name of Mr. William Willard Ashe, forester 
_ ofthe geological survey of North Carolina. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
Crategus senta, n. sp.—A small tree 5—6™ high, or more 
{ frequently a large shrub with one or more stems, bark of the 
| “unk rough, dark gray, usually much blackened near the base: 
} branches spreading, slightly pendulous or recurved, zig-zag, 
: clothed with smooth, dark or brownish-gray bark and armed 
Mth stout, gray or chestnut-brown spines 1.5-6™ long: leaves 
 Sbovate, obovate-cuneiform, or on vigorous shoots round-ovate 
oly orbicular, 2-7 long including the petiole, 7™"-5™ 
Wide 
tart 
Carolina (type locality), and when the leaves are nearly 
