344 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
thin in texture, bright green on the upper surface, below paler 
and displaying 3-5 pairs of ascending, prominent veins; stipules 
linear or linear lanceolate, glandular, caducous: flowers, which 
open in the vicinity of Albertville, Alabama (type locality), 
about the first of May, and when the leaves are nearly grown; 
produced in simple, glandular-bracteate 3—6-flowered corymbs ; 
pedicels 1-2 long, bearing one or more narrow, pectinately-glan- 
dular, caducous bractlets; calyx obconic glabrous, the divisions 
3-5™™ long, glandular-serrate : petals orbicular, or a little broader 
than long, about 8—ro™™ in diameter : stamens normally 20, 4-6" 
long: styles 3-5, surrounded at the base with pale hairs: fruit, 
which ripens in September, subglobose, 7-10" in diametet, 
changing from tones of green and yellow to light red when fully 
ripe, the flesh thin: nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 5-7" long, 
3-4™™ measured from the back to the inner angle, the lateral 
faces nearly plane and the back ridged and grooved. 
Crategus pinetorum is probably related to and easily cont 
Boyntoni Beadle®, from which it may distinguished by the sma 
more numerous stamens. 
The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
rasted with C. 
ler fruit and 
A shrub 1-4™ tall, growing in 
uch branched, clothed 
hly fissured 
Crategus rubella, n. sp. 
upland woods: stems one or several, m 
_ with gray or reddish-brown bark, either smooth or slighl'y 
and scaly: branchlets numerous, armed with slender, straight oF 
slightly curved gray or chestnut-brown spines 1.5-4™ long; "3 
on the older plants nearly destitute of spines back to - — 
branches: leaves oval, ovate or obovate, 3-9™ long including 
the petiole, 1.5-4.5™ broad, thin at first, becoming ne we 
ure, sparingly pubescent when young especially on ee 
surface, soon glabrous, sharply and doubly serrate to near 
base, and incisely lobed above the middle of th 
the apex, narrowed at the base and prolonged into @ 
sparsely-glandular petiole 1-2.5°™ long, reddish-green Of purp ler 
at the time of unfolding, becoming bright green eT a | 
below and fading with decided tones of yellow 5 stipules ae 
® Bor. GAz. 28: 409. 1899. : 
