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glabrous or with a little pubescence persistent along the petiole 

 and prominent ascending veins or in their axils, glandular towards 

 the base, bright green and lustrous on the upper surface, paler 

 below, firm in texture, fading in autumn to tones of yellow and 

 brown : flowers which expand about the last of April, solitary or 

 produced in twos or threes : pedicels permanently tomentose, 

 4 mm -i cm long, bearing one or more narrow, glandular, caducous 

 bractlets : calyx obconic, tomentose, the segments. 3-4. 5 mm long, 

 glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : petals nearly orbicular 

 4-5 mm i n diameter, the claw at the base short and relatively 

 broad : stamens normally 20, 3-4 mm long : styles 3-5, surrounded 

 at the base w r ith pale hairs: fruit pyriform, 6-8 mm w r ide, 8-1 i mm 

 high, the cavity 3- 4 BMn wide surrounded by the persistent calyx 

 lobes and remnants of the stamens, the pedicels tomentose or 

 pubescent : nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, about 7 mm long, 3-4 mm 

 measured from the back to the inner angle, the lateral faces nearly 

 plane and the back grooved and ridged. 



Crataegus iuz'icta was found in sandy soil near Doctortown, Georgia 

 (type locality), and similar specimens were collected by Professor C. S. Sar- 

 gent on his journey to Louisiana and Florida in 1886 at Way's Station, 

 Georgia. The species just proposed has. on superficial examination, affinities 

 with C. uniflora Muench, 29 but properly belongs to the "flava group." From 

 C. lepida above described, it differs in the longer spines, pyriform, later ripen- 

 ing fruit, and more pointed and elongated leaves. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus munda n. sp. 



A small shrub with drooping branches frequenting the dry 

 pine lands near Batesburg, South Carolina (type locality), sel- 

 dom exceeding 1-1.5™ in height: bark dark gray tinged with 

 reddish-browm : spines slender, straight or slightly curved, 1-4. 5 cm 

 long, gray or chestnut-brown : leaves spathulate or obovate in 

 outline, i-3 cm long including the petiole, 4 mm -i.5 cm wide, pubes- 

 cent at the time of unfolding, becoming nearly glabrous or with 

 traces of pubescence along the petiole and principal veins and 

 in their axils ; they are either rounded, frequently with an abrupt 

 point at the apex, or more acute, narrowed towards the base and 

 abruptly contracted into a short petiole, or cuneate, bright 



29 Muench. Hausv. 5:147, 1770. 



