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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



gray with tinges of reddish-brown, the growth of the season gla- 

 brous, bright reddish-brown, marked with small pale lenticels : 

 spines slender, i-4 cm long, gray or chestnut-brown, or on the older 

 branches and trunk compound and of larger size : leaves ovate, 

 ovate-oblong or oval. 2.5-q c ™ long including the petioles, 1-5. 5 cm 

 broad, glabrous, thin to firm in texture, bright green above, paler 

 below and displaying 4-6 pairs of prominent veins ; they are acute 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, often abruptly so, or on the 

 shoots either rounded or nearly truncate, the borders irregularly 

 serrate and incisely 6-10-lobed or cleft : flowers, which appear when 

 the leaves are about two-thirds grown, produced in mostly 5-10- 

 rlowered sub-simple corymbs, and expand in the vicinity of 

 Evergreen, Alabama (type locality), before the middle of April : 

 pedicels glabrous, 1-2. 5 cm long, bearing one or several narrow 

 pectinately-glandular, caducous bractlets : calyx obconic, glabrous, 

 the divisions 3-4 mm long, i-2 mm broad, usually serrate near the 

 summit, reflexed after anthesis : petals nearly orbicular, 6-8 mm in 

 diameter, the upper borders more or less erose : stamens normally 

 20, 4-5 mm long, the anthers purple : styles 3-5, surrounded at the 

 base with pale hairs : fruit which ripens and falls the last of Sep- 

 tember or early in October, globose, red or red and green, 5-g mm 

 in diameter, the cavity very prominent, 2.5— 4 m,n across, surrounded 

 by the remnants of the calyx lobes and filaments, or the former 

 frequently fully persistent: nutlets 3-5, usually 3, 4.5-6 mm long, 

 2 -5 _ 3o mm measured dorso-ventrally, the back slightly ridged and 

 grooved and the lateral faces nearly plane. 



CratcEgas incitis is abundant along the borders of swamps, usually in 

 clayey soil, at Evergreen, Alabama. The proposed species differs from C. 

 o£i?na previously described, in the elongated, many-cleft or incised leaves, 

 the stouter and larger pedicels and duller colore^ fruit, and from C. fulcher- 

 rima Ashe, 1. c, in the shape and color of the fruit, the longer and stouter 

 pedicels and more elongated leaves. 



The type material (fruit and flowers from the same tree), is preserved in 

 the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus signata n. sp. 



A tree seldom exceeding a height of 5-6™ , with a slender 

 trunk dividing 2-3 m above ground into several spreading or 

 ascending branches, the whole forming an oval or round, com- 



