100 TE>TNKS.si!;ii , Flora. 



*C. Margaretta Ashe. Nashville, Charlotte Pike. April, 

 May. 



fC. macrosperma Ashe. Frequent on Lookout Mt. 

 d JGattingeri Ashe. Nashville. 



C. coUina Chapm. Banks of Cumberland River, near wa- 

 terworks. 



C. Vailliae Britton. Wolf Creek, Cocke County. J. H^ 

 Kearney. 



C. populifolia Elliott. Lebanon Pike, Nashville. Cowan. ' 



COTONEASTER Med. 



, Cotoneaster Pyracantha (L.) Spach. Evergreen thorn. 

 Thickets near Hyde's Ferry, Nashville. Introduced. May. 



DRUPACE.^ DC. 

 PRUNUS L. 



Prunus Americana Marsh. Wild yellow or red plum. O. 

 S. April, May. Fruit ripe in July, August.. 



P. hortulana Bailey. Wild goose plum. O. S. , Formerly 

 believed to be a hybrid between P. Americaiia and Chickasa. 

 April, May. 



*0. Margaretta Ashe. Small tree, 4-5 m. high, sometimes a shrub; 

 branches, flexuous geniculate, thornless, or only sparingly beset with 

 short, slender thorns; leaves, glandless membranaceous, bright green 

 both sides, broadly rhombic to broader than long, with 3-6 prominent, 

 straight veins, obtusely serrate, with 3-5 pairs shallow lobes; flowers, 

 in 7-12 flowered corymbs; petals .orbicular; stamens. 15-20; styles, 2-3; 

 fruit, 1 cm. diameter, nearly round, reddish or orange. 



fC. macrosperma Ashe. (Journal BUsha Mitchell See, Decem- 

 ber, 1900.) Small tree 5-7 m. in height, with wide-spreading branches, 

 armed with numerous short,, very stout, 1-2 cm. long, red brown to 

 black thorns; leaves, membranaceous, but firm, dark green above, paler 

 and sparingly glaucous or whitish beneath, deltoid or broadly oval at 

 the apex, rounded or subcordate, with a narrow sinus at base, 3-6 cm. 

 long, 2-5 wide, sharply serrate to the base; flowers, in 4-9 flowered sim- 

 ple corymbs on slender petioles; divisions of calyx, lanceolate, short, 

 3-5 mm'; long, persistent and coloring with the fruit; styles, 3-4; sta- 

 mens, 5-10; fruit, 12-18 mm. diameter; flesh, thick and mealy, falling 

 In September; nutlets, 3-5. 



JGattingeri Ashe. (Journal Eligha Mitchell Soc, December, 1900.) 

 Twigs, glabrous, dark purple brown, sparingly glaucous, armed with 

 numerous thorns, 3-4 cm. long; leaves, glabrous, dark green above, paler 

 beneath, the blades oblong, ovate, or • deljpid in outline, 2-7 cm. long, 

 2-5 cm. wide, rounded, truncate, or subcordate at base, attenuate at the 

 apex, finely but acuminat61y serrate, generally with 3-5 prominent 

 lobes; petioles, slender, roughened above, witk 1-2 pairs of glands; 

 corymbs, few-flowered, the pedicels slender and glabrous, 1-1.5 cm. 

 long; calyx lobes, short, triangular, glabrous; stamens, 20; fruit, dark 

 red, sparingly prulnose, globular, 8-11 mm. thick, generally capped by 

 the stalked calyx lobes, persistent until after the foliage has fallen. 



