346 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
pubescent when young, becoming glabrous with age, or with a 
few hairs along the midrib and principal veins which are disposed 
in 3-5 pairs; petioles winged, 7™™—3.5°™ long, bearing several or 
many stalked glands ; stipules linear or linear-oblong, pectinately- 
glandular, caducous: flowers, which appear in the vicinity of 
Valley Head, Alabama (type locality), and when the leaves are 
nearly grown, disposed in glandular-bracteate, 3-6-flowered 
corymbs; pedicels 7™™—2.5°™ long, bearing one or two, pectin- 
ately-glandular, caducous bractlets :. calyx obconic, the divisions 
4-6™™" long, glandular-serrate and with a few stalked glands 
below the middle: petals nearly orbicular, 6-10™™ in diameter, 
with a short, broad claw at the base: stamens normally 10, oy 
long, the anthers purplish: styles 3-5, surrounded at the base 
with pale hairs: fruit subglobose or pyriform, 10-13™ high, 
g-11™™" wide, yellow or greenish-yellow, ripening after the — 
of September: nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 7-8™™ long, 3-4 
measured from the back to the inner angle, the lateral faces 
nearly plane and the back grooved and ridged. ya 
Crategus straminea frequently covers large areas on the top of Loe 
mountain above Valley Head, Alabama, growing in the shade of oak; - 
and hickory trees, and will probably be found to extend into the adjace® 
regions of Tennessee and Georgia. It is related to C. Boyntoni Beadle, /. < 
from which it differs in habit of growth, form and color of fruit, color of the 
anthers, slender spines, and leaves with more sharply cut bare 
he type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 
BILTMORE HERBARIUM, 
Biltmore, N. C. 
