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with a short, sharp point, either rounded or narrowed at the base and 

 prolonged into a glandular, pubescent but eventually glabrate 

 petiole ^mm__2 cm long ; the borders are crenate, crenate-dentate, or 

 obscurely serrate, the teeth or serratures glandular-apiculate, or 

 sometimes deeply toothed or slightly lobed near the apex : 

 flowers, which expand in the vicinity of Greenville, Alabama 

 (type locality), about the middle of April, i2 mm -i.5 cm broad, pro- 

 duced in small, mostly 3-5-flowered or occasionally 7-flowered, 

 simple corymbs : pedicels 5 mm -i cm long, pilose, bearing a few 

 glandular or pectinately-glandular, caducous bractlets ; calyx 

 obconic, sparingly pilose, the divisions 3~5 mm long, serrate, re- 

 flexed after anthesis : petals small, a little broader than long, 

 about 6-7 mm , the claw at the base short and relatively broad : 

 stamens normally 20, 3-5™™ long : styles 3-5, surrounded at the 

 base with pale hairs: fruit red, globose, 8-i2 mm in diameter, 

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

 hard and bony, 6-y mm long, S-5-^-5 mm measured dorso-ventrally, 

 the back ridged and grooved and the lateral faces nearly plane. 



Cratcegus segnis is related to C. sororia, 1. c, and may be contrasted 

 by the much smaller flowers, fruits and nutlets and the outline and borders of 

 the leaves. It is known to me only from the region adjacent to Greenville, 

 Alabama, where numerous individuals of great age testify to its slow growth 

 and longevity. 



The type material, consisting of fruit and flowers from the same individual, 

 is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus quaesita n. sp. 



A tree occasionally 5-7" 1 tall with a short trunk i-i.5 dm in 

 diameter, or more often a large branching shrub with one or 

 several stems : bark of the trunk and larger branches ashy-gray 

 or frequently much blackened at the base, fissured and broken 

 on the surface into small scaly plates : of the branchlets gray, 

 tinged with reddish-brown, the growth of the season at first 

 pubescent, but eventually glabrous, reddish-brown in color : 

 spines short and stout, 2-3°™ long, gray or chestnut-brown : 

 leaves obovate or cuneiform, i.5-6 cm long, including the mar- 

 gined, glandular petiole, i-3 cm wide, or even larger on vigorous 

 shoots, a little pubescent at the time of unfolding, soon glabrous 

 or with a few hairs on the petiole and along the midrib, bright 



