900] STUDIES IN CRATAGUS 345 
or linear-lanceolate, pectinately-glandular, early deciduous: 
} flowers, which appear when the leaves are nearly grown, borne 
| insimple, 3-6-flowered glandular-bracteate corymbs, and open- 
ing in the vicinity of Valley Head, Alabama (type locality), 
_ about the first of May ; pedicels 1-2°™ long, bearing one to three 
pectinately-glandular, deciduous bractlets: calyx obconic, the 
; segments 4-6™" long, glandular-serrate: petals rather broader 
than long, 8-12™™" wide, 7-10™™ long, with a short, broad claw 
atthe base: stamens normally 10, sometimes united in pairs and 
appearing to be fewer, 5-7™™ long, the anthers light purple: 
Styles 2-4,rarely 5, surrounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit 
red, pyriform or oval, 12-15™™ long, 10-12™ wide, ripening 
aiter the middle of September: nutlets 2-3, rarely 4-5, hard and 
| bony, 6—7™™ long, 3-4™" measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral 
faces nearly plane and the back ridged and grooved. 
Crategus rubella is abundant on Lookout mountain above Valley Head, 
Alabama, growing in the shade of oaks and pines, and has been collected in 
_ “ilar situations in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. It has 
oan customary to refer this species to C. flava, C. rotundifolia, and C. ¢coc- 
3 “nea, but Iam inclined to place it near and compare it with C. Boyntont 
"oe l.c., from which it differs conspicuously in the outline of the leaves, 
cee color of the fruit, and the purple color of the anthers. 
€ type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
Crataegus straminea, n. sp.—A low shrub, about 1™ in height, 
' oy growing in large patches in upland woods, or occasion- 
a pe oiling larger proportions, 2—3™ tall, and developing from 
AL ah stems a coarse shrub with loose or straggling ee 
a = gray, tinged with brown or reddish-brown, arme 
' ae ner, curved or straight spines 1.5-6™ long which oe 
E a. = chestnut-brown in color: leaves oval, ovate © 
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