1900] STUDIES 1N CRATAGUS 343 
lunate or variously lobed, pectinately-glandular or glandular-ser- 
rate, caducous: flowers, which appear when the leaves are 
almost fully grown, borne in simple or branched, 3-9-flowered, 
densely-pubescent corymbs, and open in the vicinity of Mont- 
gomery, Alabama, (type locality), early in April; pedicels 
1-2.5™ long, densely pubescent, bearing one or more small, 
glandular, caducous bractlets: calyx obconic, pubescent, the 
divisions 6—-8™™ long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis: 
petals orbicular or longer than broad, about 1™ in diameter, with 
ashort and broad claw at the base: stamens normally 20, 5-7™™ 
long, the anthers yellow: styles 2-5, usually 3, surrounded at 
the base with pale hairs: fruit large, elongated, 1.5-2™ long, 
E15 wide, red, ripening early in August: nutlets usually 2-3 
hard and bony, 8—10™™ long, 3-4™™ measured from the back to 
the inner angle, the lateral faces nearly plane and the back 
Stooved and ridged. 
Crategus Alabamensis is abundant in dry, clayey soil near Montgomery, 
Alabama, 
the fruit, less glandular foliage, and attenuated calyx segments. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
a Crategus Pinetorum, n. sp.—A shrub 1-5™tall growing in 
_* tocky woods where the prevailing forest growth consists 
: : pines, oaks, and hickories: stems one or more, clothed with 
eee roughened, dark gray bark, which is frequently 
Natkened near the base: branches slender, armed with slender, 
; —" patel dark gray or chestnut-brown spines 1-5 
a. ‘Sa % . of the season covered with smooth, reddish- 
inthe * which is marked by small pale lenticels, becoming 
°F obovate 
ay pubescent on the midrib and veins on the upper sur- 
soon glabrous, acute at the apex, sharply and 
and incisely lobed, the serratures minutely 
ed int , Narrowed or rounded at the base and pro- 
© 4 Margined, sparsely-glandular petiole 1-2.5°™ long, 
