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western Florida. A year later the collectors of the Biltmore 

 Herbarium secured more complete specimens from the same 

 locality, some of which, together with the field notes, Mr. C. D. 

 Beadle has kindly placed in my hands. The species may be 

 characterized as follows : 



Crataegus lacrimata 



A small tree 4-5 meters tall, with a single trunk 1-2 dm. 

 thick, or more frequently with several main stems 1—2 meters 

 long, the branches " weeping." Bark of the branches gray, often 

 slightly scaly : branches and twigs zigzag, armed with thorns or 

 thorn-like spurs 1-3 cm. long: leaves numerous; blades firm 

 or leathery, cuneate-spatulate, 1—2 cm. long, or rarely slightly 

 longer, predominately truncate or rounded at the apex or often 

 a few of them merely blunt or acutish, toothed mainly at the 

 apex or above the middle, with a minute dark gland terminating 

 each tooth, 3 -nerved, glabrous at least when mature, cuneately 

 narrowed into slender finely pubescent petioles : corymbs 2—4- 

 flowered, or sometimes developing a single flower : pedicels 8-13 

 mm. long, glabrous at least in age, occasionally bearing a few 

 linear-filiform deciduous scales : hypanthium turbinate, the lower 

 part even, the upper and more spreading part ridged : sepals 

 2.5—3 mm - long, about as long as the hypanthium, lanceolate or 

 triangular-lanceolate from a triangular or more dilated base, en- 

 tire, glabrous, with reddish or brownish tips, early and per- 

 manently recurving : petals 5, white, suborbicular, 5-6 mm. 

 broad : stamens normally 20 ; anthers yellowish, about 1 mm. 

 long : pomes pyriform when young, becoming globose or nearly 

 so at maturity, yellow, orange or orange-red, with a thin but 

 succulent flesh, crowned with a short neck representing the re- 

 mains of the top of the hypanthium : mature carpels usually 3, 

 minutely roughened, 5-6 mm. long and nearly as broad. 



Along streams in pine woods, near Crestview, Florida. 



Crataegus lacrimata is most closely related to C. lepida and 

 like it has drooping branches with relatively short internodes ; but 

 C. lepida is a small thorny shrub seldom over 1 meter tall ; it 

 also differs in the glabrous or glabrate foliage and inflorescence 

 and in the longer narrower and more attenuate bases of the leaf- 

 blades. Crataegus lepida bears leaves with obovate, orbicular- 

 ovate or nearly orbicular blades which at the time of unfolding 

 are both pubescent and glandular, while the pedicels and hypan- 

 thium are tomentose during anthesis, whereas in the case of C. 



