BILTMORE BOTANICAL 



STUDIES 



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reflexed after anthesis, sparingly serrate or entire, the serratures 

 minutely glandular : petals nearly orbicular, 8-io mm in diameter, 

 the upper margin erose, the claw at the base short and broad : 

 stamens normally 10, about 5 mm long, the anthers purple : styles 

 3-5, surrounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit globose or 

 subglobose, red, 9-1 3 mm in diameter, ripening and falling after 

 the middle of September or early in October, the flesh soft and 

 pleasant to the taste : nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 6.5-8""" long, 

 3.5-5""" measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral faces nearly plane 

 and the back grooved and ridged. 



Crataegus frugif evens is common in thin, sandy or rocky soil near Cull- 

 man, Alabama, and has been gathered in similar situations on Lookout 

 Mountain near Gadsden, Alabama ; Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, and 

 in cfther places in the northeastern and upper central portions of the state. 

 The new species is related to C. afrzca 2R and C. sororia' 11 differing from the 

 former in the sharply serrate borders of the leaves, purple anthers, glabrous 

 calyx and shorter spines, and from the latter by the number of stamens, 

 glabrous calyx and the smaller and deeper colored fruit. 



The type specimens, flowers and fruit from the same individual, are pre- 

 served in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus ignava n. sp. 



A small tree 3-4'" tall or more frequently a much-branched 

 shrub with one or more stems : bark ashy-gray or gray tinged with 

 brown, frequently blackened near the base, the surface fissured 

 and broken into numerous plate-like scales : branches ascending, 

 armed with stout, gray or chestnut-brown spines 2-3.5 cm long, the 

 bark smooth, gray tinged with brown or reddish-brown : winter 

 buds globular, bright reddish-brown : leaves, which are almost 

 fully grown at flowering time, 2.5-6.5 cm long including the petiole, 

 i-3 cm wide, glabrous or with a few hairs along the midrib and princi- 

 pal veins, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, bright green and fading 

 to tones of yellow and brown ; they vary from obovate to ovate in 

 outline, or occasionally round-ovate, acute at the apex, either wedge- 

 shaped or more abruptly contracted at the base and prolonged into 

 margined, glandular petioles ^mm^^cm long, the borders sharply 

 and irregularly serrate and incisely lobed above the middle of 

 the blade, and less sharply serrate towards the base, the serra- 



2 6 Bot. Gaz. 30 : 335, 1900. 

 2 ' Bot. Gaz. 30:336, 1900. 



