NEW SPECIES OF THORNS FROM THE 

 SOUTHEASTERN STATES. II 



VIRIDES 



Ripe fruit red, or at least with ruddy cheeks 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, either nar- 

 rowed or contracted at the base 

 Leaves coarsely and irregularly serrate, often with 

 blunt or acute shallow lobes 



Leaves ample, 2-4 cm wide C. viridis L. 1 



Leaves (exclusive of the shoots) i-2 cm wide : twigs 



very spiny C. galudosa Sarg. 2 



Leaves all sharply serrate and incisely lobed 



Inflorescence pilose-pubescent : terminal leaves of 

 the shoots broadly ovate with broad, rounded 



or truncate bases C. subviridis 



Inflorescence glabrous : terminal leaves of the 

 shoots broadly ovate, mostly with broad, 



rounded bases C. interior 



Leaves all broadly ovate or oval, rounded or very 

 abruptly contracted at the base : fruit yellowish-green 



flushed with red, 7~9 mm in diameter C. vulsa Beadle 3 



Ripe fruit bright canary-yellow C. brazoria Sarg. 4 



Crataegus subviridis n. sp. 



A tree 6-8 m tall with a short trunk sometimes 2 dm in diameter 

 covered with gray, fissured bark, dividing 1-3" 1 above the ground 

 into several ascending or spreading branches, forming an oval, 

 usually compact, symmetrical head; or often a large much- 

 branched shrub with one or more stems : leaves ovate, obovate or 

 oval, the blades 2-5-6 cm long, i~4 cm wide, or larger on leading 

 shoots, acute or acuminate, rarely rounded at the apex, contracted 

 or narrowed at the base, or on the shoots rounded or truncate ; 

 they are nearly glabrous on the upper surface at the time of 

 unfolding, or with some conspicuous pubescence along the midrib 

 and in the groove of the petioles, pale beneath and bearing large 

 tufts of white hairs in the axils of the prominent ascending veins, 



1 Sp. PL 476, 1753. 



2 Ineditus. 



3 B. B. Studies 1:39, 1901. 



4 Bot. Gaz. 31 : 233, 1901. 



Issued April jo, iqo2. (51) 



