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broad: stamens normally 20, 5-7™™ long: styles 3-5, surrounded 
at the base with pale hairs: fruit globose, 1o-14™™ in diameter, 
red, ripening and falling the last of September and beginning of 
October: nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 7-9™™ long, 4-5 meas- 
ured from back to inner angle, the back shallowly grooved and 
the lateral faces nearly plane. 
Crategus senta is abundantly represented in abandoned fields and in 
open woods near Biltmore, North Carolina, and was referred to by me in an 
article published in the BorantcaL GAZETTES under the name C. elliptica. 
The new species is related to C. Michauxi Pers.® (C. glandulosa Michx.,’ 
not Aiton or Wildenow), from which it may be recognized by the longer 
petioles and pedicels, the sharply cut and nearly smooth leaves and less 
glandular characters of foliage and inflorescence. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
Crategus Alabamensis, n. sp.—A tree 4-6™ tall, or more 
commonly a large branching shrub with one or more stems, and 
spreading, often pendulous branches: bark rough, gray tinged 
with brown, or much blackened near the base : branchlets at first 
villose-pubescent, often puberulous in their first winter, but 
ultimately glabrous, gray tinged with reddish-brown, 0 ee : 
brighter on the younger wood, slender, zig-zag, armed with dark 
gray or chestnut-brown spines 1.5—4™ long, or sometimes longer 
and branched on the older branches and trunk: winter buds 
globose, bright reddish-brown: leaves obovate or Oba 
form, rounded at the apex and often with a short point 6 eS 
end of the midrib or occasionally very abruptly contracted 1" 
an acute tip, gradually narrowed or cuneiform at the base x 
prolonged into a margined, pubescent, glandular pare? 2 
2.5™ long, 2-7™ long including the petiole, 1-3.5™ pene 
even larger on the shoots, pubescent at the time of er ole 
especially along the principal veins, and at maturity ee 
ceous or thinner, bright green and lustrous above an ie 
on the lower surface, the borders crenate-dentate = ge the 
especially above the middle, glandular-serrate OF entire ne4 
base; stipules linear or linear-oblong, on the strong § 
5 Bot. Gaz. 25: 447. 1898. 
6 Syn. Plant. 2:38. 1807. 7 Flora Bor.-Am. 1? 288. 1803- 
