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especially upon the upper surface when young, thin to firm in 

 texture, bright green above, paler below, fading in autumn with 

 decided tones of yellow and brown : stipules linear, either 

 straight or falcate, glandular or pectinately-glandular, or broader 

 and glandular-serrate on vigorous shoots, caducous : flowers, 

 which appear when the leaves are nearly fully grown, produced 

 in simple, glabrous, bracteate corymbs, and expand in the vicinity 

 of Greenville, Alabama (type locality), before the middle of 

 April: pedicels glabrous, 6 mm -i. 5 cm long, bearing a few narrow, 

 glandular, deciduous bractlets : calyx glabrous, obconic, the divi- 

 sions 2-3. 5 mm long, sparingly glandular-serrate or entire, slightly 

 pubescent on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis : petals 

 6-ymm w ide, nearly orbicular or even longer than broad, the 

 margin above usually erose : stamens normally 20, 4-6 cm long, 

 the anthers purple : styles 3-5, surrounded at the base with pale 

 hairs : fruit globose, bright red, 5-8 mm in diameter, ripening the 

 first of October and usually persisting for a brief period : nutlets 

 3-5, 3. 5-4. 5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the ven- 

 tral faces nearly plane and the back faintly grooved and ridged. 



Cratcegus opima is frequently loaded with the small highly-colored pomes, 

 and in such condition is a striking and pretty object. Abundantly distributed 

 in the region about Greenville, Alabama, the form has also been collected at 

 other points in the same general region of the state. From the characters 

 of the fruit it suggests C. viridis L., 1. c. (C. arborescens Ell.), 1. c, a species 

 however, with which it differs widely, as exemplified in the instance of the 

 former by the simple corymbs and more circular, short pointed leaves. Con- 

 trasted with C. pulcherrima Ashe, 32 with which it is more closely related, the 

 new species may be distinguished by the round, highly colored fruit, border 

 and relatively shorter leaf-blades with less deeply incised borders and later 

 time of flowering. 



The type material, composed of fruit and flowers frcm the same tree, is 

 preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus incilis n. sp. 



Arborescent, 5 -j m tall, with a trunk i-i.5 dm in diameter divid- 

 ing 1-2. 5 m above ground into several stout, ascending or spreading 

 branches, or a large branching shrub with one or several stems : 

 bark of the trunk and larger branches gray, more or less tinged 

 with brown and usually blackened near the base ; of the branchlets 



3 2 Jour. Elisha. Mitchell Soc. 16:77, 1900. 



