122 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ FEBRt 
first dark orange-green, becoming dull red-brown during their first seas | 
and darker brown in their second year. : 
Flowers the first of May. Fruit ripens about the middle of October. 
Dry hills near Fulton, Arkansas. Common. JB. F. Bush, April 29, 
October 15, 1go1 (nos. 601, 1079). a 
This very distinct thorn belongs to a group of small-fruited still vey 
imperfectly known species which is abundant with several forms in southes 
Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and of which Crataegus viridis of Linnaes 
is the type. From that species Crataegus blanda differs in the character and 
color of the bark, in the larger flowers and fruit, in the unarmed branches 
and in its preference for dry uplands, Crataegus viridis with pale neatly 
white bark being found usually only on low moist bottom-lands along tH 
borders of streams and swamps. . 
Crataegus Ravenelii, n. sp.— Leaves obovate, rounded 
abruptly short-pointed or acute at the broad sometimes SiS} 
lobed apex, gradually narrowed from above the middle to 
cuneate elongated undulate glandular base, z-nerved, coast 
and usually doubly glandular-serrate above, with large 
ultimately dark persistent glands; nearly fully grown ™ 
flowers open and then coated with long scattered matte 
hairs; at maturity thin but firm in texture, yellow-green 
Tate on the upper surface, pubescent on the lower surface 
the slender nerves, 1 to 1% in. long, about 34 i. 
| _ vigorous leading shoots often 2 in. long and 1% in. 
: divided above the middle into two or three pairs of broad 
lobes ; petioles slender, winged above by the decurrent bases 
__ the leaf-blades, conspicuously glandular, tomentose at 
_ mately pubescent, from 1% to % in. long; stipules bot 
oS lunate, coarsely glandular-serrate, tomentose, caducous: © 
ee about 34 in. in diameter, in few or many-flowered simple 
_ tose corymbs; bracts and bractlets linear, glandular, © 
calyx-tube narrowly obconic, thickly coated with ito: 
ae hair s, the lobes lanceolate, villose on the outer surfaces: 
2G on the inner surface, glandular with small red glands, 
when . 
spreading or drooping cl Ze 
e or short-oblong, bright 
