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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



3 mm -i cm long : they are pubescent at the time of unfolding, espe- 

 cially the petioles and principal veins, becoming glabrate with 

 age, the borders crenate or crenate-dentate, particularly so above 

 the middle of the blade, usually serrate and glandular near the 

 base, bright glossy green when mature, firm to subcoriaceous in 

 texture, fading in autumn to tones of brown and yellow : flowers 

 produced in simple, mostly 1-3-nowered corymbs, expanding in 

 the vicinity of River Junction, Florida (type locality), the last 

 of March or first of April, and when the leaves are nearly fully 

 grown : pedicels 4 mm -i cm long, tomentose-pubescent, bearing one 

 or more narrow deciduous bractlets : calyx obconic, tomentose- 

 pubescent, the segments glandular-serrate, 3. 5— 5 mm long, reflexed 

 after anthesis : petals nearly orbicular, with a broad, short claw 

 at the base : stamens normally 20, 3-4 mm long : styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit subglobose or pyri- 

 form, red and orange or greenish, 7-9™™ wide, 8-1 i mm high, 

 ripening and falling early in September : nutlets 3-5, hard and 

 bony, 5-6 mm long, about 4 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral 

 faces nearly plane and the back shallowly grooved and ridged, 



Cratcegus condigna is represented in many herbaria, the following 

 specimens being noted : Chapman, Florida ; Curtiss No. 5982, River Junction, 

 Fla. ; C. S. Sargent, Chattahoochee, Fla. , 1900 ; Biltmore Herbarium, River 

 Junction, Fla., 1899, and Tallahassee, Fla., 1900. The species now proposed 

 represents one of the many forms which have served as C. flava Ait., 28 a 

 name, when correctly applied, properly belonging to a different plant. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus lepida n. sp. 



A small and very spiny shrub, seldom averaging more than 

 i-i.5 m tall, with drooping branches: bark gray or tinged with 

 reddish-brown : branches slender, recurved, zigzag, the internodes 

 very short : spines very numerous, 1-2. 5 cm long, gray or chestnut- 

 brown : leaves very small, 5 mm -2. 5 cm long including the petiole, 

 3-5 mm -2 cm wide, pubescent and glandular at the time of unfolding, 

 becoming glabrous and lustrous on the upper surface, pale green 

 on the lower side and with more or less pubescence, especially 

 along the petiole, principal veins and in their axils ; they vary 

 from obovate, round-ovate or nearly orbicular to spatulate in out- 



28 Hort. Kew. 2:169, 1789. ' 



