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line, either rounded, truncate or short pointed at the apex, con- 

 tracted at the base or sometimes cuneate and prolonged into a 

 margined glandular petiole 2 mm -i cm long, the borders crenate or 

 dentate or glandular-serrate and slightly lobed near the apex and 

 little more than glandular at the base, fading in early autumn with 

 decided yellow and brown tints : flowers which appear early in 

 April, solitary or in twos or threes : pedicels tomentose-pubescent, 

 2-7 mm long, bearing one or more glandular or pectinately-glandular 

 caducous bractlets : calyx obconic, more or less pubescent, the 

 divisions 2-3"™ long, glandular serrate or pectinately-glandular, 

 usually coloring with the fruit : petals nearly orbicular, about 5 mm 

 in diameter : stamens normally 20, 3-3. 5 mm long : styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit subglobose, about 

 7-1 1 mm in diameter, orange or orange-red in color, ripening and 

 falling in the vicinity of Waycross, Georgia (type locality), about 

 the last of August : cavity 3-4 mni wide, surrounded by the calyx 

 segments and the remnants of the stamens, the tips of the nutlets 

 exposed at the bottom at maturity : nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 

 6-7 mm long, 3~4 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the back either 

 smooth or shallowy grooved, the lateral faces nearly plane. 



Crataegus lefiida is a remarkably neat and graceful shrub, an inhabitant of 

 the sandy soil of southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida, and is represented 

 in the Herbarium from Darien and Waycross, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida. 

 The species belongs to that section of the " flava group" characterized by small, 

 glossy leaves and very few-flowered corymbs. 



Type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus invicta n. sp. 



A shrub 1-1.5 111 tall with zigzag, recurved and very spiny 

 branches, clothed with gray bark which is usually more or less 

 tinged with reddish-brown : thorns slender, straight or slightly 

 curved, 2. 5~5 cm long, gray or chestnut-brown in color : leaves, 

 which are nearly fully grown at flowering time, spathulate or 

 cuneate, on the vigorous shoots obovate or round-ovate, 5 mm -2.5 cm 

 long including the short petiole, 3<T>m_ I cm broad, or a little more 

 in width on the shoots, either rounded and frequently shallowly 

 lobed near the apex, or more acute with less conspicuous lobes, 

 serrate or crenate-dentate, the teeth glandular-apiculate ; they are 

 somewhat pubescent at the time of unfolding, soon becoming 



