548 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ohio, Mr. Lea! Indiana, Dr. Clapp! Kentucky, Dr. Short! Texas, 
Drummond.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crataegus biltmoreana Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 405. 1899. BILTMORE THORN. 
A shrub 8 to 15 feet high, with a reddish brown bark and chestnut-brown or red- 
dish brown branches, stout, slightly curved spines 1 to 2 inches long, and large 
flowers in simple 5 to 7 flowered pubescent corymbs. ‘The leaves are thin, membra- 
naceous, roughish but rather inconspicuously pubescent, green above, paler beneath, 
ovate to round. ovate, usually wedge-shaped at the base, acutely incised, or slightly 
5 to 9 lobed, sharply and irregularly serrate to near the base, bearing, like the 
petiole, a few dark-colored stalked glands. The flowers are borne on strict pubes- 
cent pedicels; petals orbicular, contracted into a short claw; stamens 10, anthers yel- 
low; styles 3 to 5, calyx obconic, pubescent or tormentose, with the dentate or pec- 
tinate glandular Jobes 8 lines long; fruit yellow or yellowish green to orange, con- 
taining from 3 to 5 depressed-globose obtusely angled nutlets. 
Usually confounded with Eastern forms of C. mollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele, from 
which it may be known by its smaller size, simple corymbs, and later time of flow- 
ering, and by the color and texture of its fruit. 
Carolinian area. From Pennsylvania and Virginia to eastern Tennessee, North 
Carolina, and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry, rocky woodlands. DeKalb County, Lookout 
Mountain (Beadle, May, 1900). Flowers after the middle of May. 
Type locality: ‘ Vicinity of Biltmore, N.C.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crataegus tomentosa chapmani Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 25:360. 1898. 
Crataegus tomentosa microcarpa Chap. Fl. ed.3, 139. 1897. Not. C. microcarpa Lindl. 
1836. 
Chap. Fl. 1.c¢. 
Carolinian area. Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region. Jackson County, Sand Mountain 
(C. D. Beadle). Etowah County, Gadsden (G. C. Boynton), Small tree or shrub. 
Flowers in May. 
Type locality: ‘‘River banks near Rome, Ga.” 
Biltmore Herb. 
Crataegus crus-galli L. Sp. Pl.1:476. 1753. CocksPuR THORN. 
Ell. Sk. 1:548. Gray, Man. ed. 6,166. Chap. Fl. 127. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:107. Sargent, Silv. N. A.4:91, t. 178. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern Ontario, Michigan, and Missouri, 
south to Florida, west to Texas and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Central prairies. Wooded banks, copses, in close 
damp soil. Morgan, Madison, Cullman, Montgomery, Dallas, and Hale Counties. 
Flowers white, April; fruit ripe October, dull red. Small tree, 15 to 25 feet. Fre- 
quent in the valleys and prairies. =" 
Type locality not given. In L.Sp.Pl.ed.2: ‘“‘ Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Crataegus collina Chap. Il. ed. 3, 140. 1897. 
Carolinian area. Southeastern Tennessee, North Carolina, and northern Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Lower hills. Rocky and gravelly hills. Dekalb 
County. Jefferson County, Red Mountain near Birmingham (Sargent). Tuscaloosa 
County, rocky banks of Warrior River. Etowah County, Gadsden (C. D. Beadle). 
Jackson County, Sand Mountain (Biltmore Herb.), Mobile County (Biltmore Herb.). 
Flowers April. Fruit mature October, red. Not rare. 
Tall shrub or small tree. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Rocky hillsides, north Georgia and Tennessee.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mokr. 
Crataegus mohri Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 416. 1899. 
A tree 18 to 30 feet high, with a slender trunk 4 to 8 inches in diameter, unarmed 
or sparsely spiny, or in unfavorable situations a large erect branching shrub, the 
branches ascending or nearly horizontal, forming an oblong or occasionally a round 
compact head, the branchlets and sinaller branches zigzag with slightly curved or 
straight spines from 1 to 2 inches long. Leaves cuneate-obovate, or on vigorous 
shoots from ovate to orbicular, 14 to 22 inches long and $ to 1} inches wide, acute or 
rounded at-the apex and contracted below into winged or margined petioles from 4 
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