BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



tures minutely glandular-apiculate : flowers, which expand in, the 

 vicinity of Valley Head, Ala. (type locality), early in May, pro- 

 duced in nearly simple, glandular-bracteate, mostly 3-5-flowered 

 corymbs : pedicels glabrous or with a few weak, caducous hairs, 

 i-2 cm long, bearing one or more pectinately-glandular caducous 

 bractlets : calyx obconic, glabrous, the divisions 4-5. 5 mm long, 

 serrate or glandular serrate, reflexed after anthesis : petals 6-8 mm 

 long and of about the same width, the claw at the base relatively 

 broad and short : stamens normally 20, 3-5 mm long, the anthers 

 purplish : styles 3-5, surrounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit 

 globose or subglobose, 8-1 2 mm in diameter, red or orange red, 

 ripening and falling the last of September and early in October, 

 the cavity 3.5-4 mm wide surrounded by the remnants of the calyx 

 lobes and filaments : nutlets hard and bony, 5.5-6. 5 mm long, about 

 3 mm thick measured dorso-ventrally, the back ridged and grooved 

 and the lateral faces nearly plane. 



Ci-atcegus ignava grows abundantly on Lookout Mountain, above Valley 

 Head, Alabama, and in similar situations at Collinsville and Gadsden, Alabama, 

 and, while known to the writer for some time, its marked unfruitfulness during 

 three seasons has rendered its full and comparative study of slow progress The 

 new species belongs to that section of the " flava group " characterized by twenty 

 stamens and red fruit, and is easily contrasted with C. sororia, 1. c. , a member 

 of the same section and group. The most prominent points of distinction are 

 apparent in the relative size of the fruits and nutlets and the glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous pedicels of the former and the more pubescent character of the same 

 organs in the last named species. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus segnis n. sp. 



A tree 5-7 m tall with very rough, dark colored bark: trunk i-i.5 dm 

 in diameter, dividing i-3 m above ground into large, spreading and 

 crooked branches which are clothed with dark gray or reddish- 

 brown bark : spines stout and short, i-2 cm long, gray or reddish- 

 brown : leaves, which are almost fully grown at, flowering time, 

 firm to subcoriacous in texture, 2-5. 5 cm long including the petiole, 

 I_ 3-5 cm wide, bright green in color, fading to tones of yellow and 

 brown ; they are sparsely pubescent on both surfaces at the time 

 of unfolding, especially along the midrib and ascending veins, 

 soon glabrous or with a few hairs in the axils ; in outline obovate, 

 round-ovate or infrequently orbicular, acute at the apex, or rounded 



