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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



glossy green when mature, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, fading 

 in autumn to tones of yellow and brown with occasional dashes of 

 red ; they are rounded at the apex and with an abrupt short 

 point or shallowly several lobed or occasionally simply pointed 

 and acute, the borders serrate or crenate, either cuneate at the 

 base or more abruptly contracted into a petiole 5 mm -2 cm long : flow- 

 ers produced when the leaves are about half-grown, cup-shaped, 

 i2-i6 mm in diameter, the corymbs 1-5-flowered, expanding in 

 the region of River Junction, Florida (type locality), about 

 the first of April : pedicels 5-i2 mm long, pubescent, bearing one 

 or more narrow, glandular or pectinately-glandular caducous 

 bractlets : calyx obconic, sparingly pubescent, the divisions glan- 

 dular or glandular-serrate, 3. 5— 5 mm long, reflexed after anthesis : 

 petals nearly orbicular, 6-g mm in diameter, erose, the claw at the 

 base relatively broad and short : stamens normally 20, 3-5 mm 

 long, the anthers light purple : styles 3-5, surrounded at the 

 base with pale hairs : fruit, which ripens and falls about the 

 middle of September, subglobose or slightly pyriform, red and 

 orange, 8-1 i mm in diameter, g-i3 mm high, the cavity 3-4™™ wide: 

 nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, about 7 mm long, 3~4 mm measured 

 dorso-ventrally, the lateral faces nearly plane and the back some- 

 times bearing grooves and ridges. 



Crataegus quaesita is probably best contrasted with C. segnis above pro- 

 posed, from which it may be known by the more pubescent corymbs, more 

 glandular and less deeply incised calyx segments, longer pedicels and lighter 

 colored and elongated fruit. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus consanguinea n. sp. 



A tree 5-7™ high with a clear trunk dividing 2-3™ above 

 ground into several stout, ascending or spreading branches, or 

 a large much-branched shrub with one or more stems : bark of 

 the trunk and larger branches dark ashy-gray or even much 

 blackened, fissured, the surface being broken into numerous plate- 

 like scales : of the branchlets gray or reddish-brown, the growth 

 of the season at first pubescent, soon becoming smooth and 

 marked by small pale lenticels : spines short and stout, 1.5-3°™ 

 long, gray or chestnut-brown, or occasionally larger on the older 

 branches or main axis : leaves obovate, round-ovate or nearly 



