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orbicular in outline, 2-6 cm long including the petiole, i-4 cm broad, 

 or even larger on vigorous shoots, slightly hairy at the time of 

 unfolding, especially along the petiole and principal veins, 

 which retain more or less of the pubescence even in age, other- 

 wise soon becoming glabrous, thin to firm in texture, bright 

 green ; they are mostly acute at the apex, irregularly serrate and 

 incisely lobed, contracted at the base and prolonged into a 

 margined, glandular petiole i-2 cm long : flowers, which appear 

 when the leaves are more than half-grown, borne in simple, 

 bracted 1-5-flowered corymbs, and expand at Tallahassee, Florida 

 (type locality), after the middle of March : pedicels finely 

 pubescent, c;mm_ I# cjcm long, bearing one or more pectinately- 

 glandular, caducous bractlets : calyx obconic, sparsely pubescent, 

 the divisions pectinately-glandular or glandular-serrate, 4-5 mm 

 long, reflexed after anthesis : petals erose, 8-io mm across, with a 

 short, broad claw at the base : stamens normally 20, 5-7 mm long, 

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

 pale hairs : fruit globose or depressed globose, red, o-i2 mm broad, 

 ripening and falling about the middle of September: nutlets 3-5, 

 hard and bony, 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the 

 lateral faces nearly plane and the back ridged and grooved. 



Cratcegus cojisanguinea is related to C. sororia, 1. c. , from which it may- 

 be known by the thinner and less pointed leaves, color of the anthers and 

 smaller and duller colored fruit. The proposed species thrives in the wood- 

 lands east of Tallahassee and extends westward to the valley of the Chata- 

 hoochee River. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus condigna n. sp. 



Arborescent, 4-6™ tall, with a short trunk i -i.5 dm in diameter, 

 or more frequently a large shrub with one or more stems : bark 

 of the trunk or larger branches ashy-gray or frequently black- 

 ened, fissured and scaly ; of the branchlets gray, or tinged with 

 reddish-brown, the growth of the season at first pubescent : 

 spines 5'«m_2 cm long or more, gray or chestnut-brown : leaves 

 obovate, cuneate, or on the shoots broadly obovate, i-4 cm long 

 including the petiole, 7mm_ 2 ^cm broad, either rounded and with 

 one or more short points, or these obsolete, or acute at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped or more abruptly narrowed at the base, the petiole 



