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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



20, 4-7 mm long, the anthers purple : styles mostly 3, sometimes 4- 

 5, surrounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit subglobose to 

 oval, yellow or greenish-yellow in color, ripening and falling in 

 October, 8-1 5 mm wide, 8-1 6 mm high: nutlets usually 3, hard and 

 ,bony, 7-g mm long, 3.5-5""" thick measured dorso-ventrally, the 

 back strongly ridged and grooved, but the lateral faces nearly 

 plane. 



Cratcegus fallens was discovered in upland woods near Biltmore, N. C, 

 growing with oaks, pines, hickories, etc., seeming to prefer the rich but com- 

 paratively dry soil of shallow valleys. The proposed species is related to C. sar- 

 genti 22 and C. venusta 23 . Contrasted with the former it may be distinguished by 

 the shorter pedicels, narrower and less persistent calyx segments and the less 

 pointed leaves, while from the last cited species it differs in the color of the 

 anthers, shorter leaves and smaller flowers. 



The type specimens, consisting of flowers and fruit from the same tree, are 

 preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus dispar n. sp. 



A shrub 3-4'" tall, with drooping branches, or sometimes 

 arborescent, with a short trunk i-2 m in length and about i dm in 

 diameter : bark of the trunk and older branches dark gray or gray 

 tinged with brown, rough or at the base deeply furrowed and much 

 blackened : branchlets pendulous, zigzag, armed with numerous 

 stout, gray or chestnut-brown spines 2.5~5.5 cm long, the bark vary- 

 ing in color from gray to tones of red and brown, the growth of 

 the season being clothed with dense, pale tomentum : leaves 

 obovate to orbicular in outline, or those of the strong shoots 

 conspicuously broader than long, i.5-6 cm long including petiole, 

 8 mm -4 cm wide, the majority being about 4 cm long and 2 cm wide ; 

 they are densely tomentose at the time of unfolding, becoming with 

 age glabrate on the upper surface and somewhat lucid, the under 

 surface retaining the tomentum, especially along the prominent 

 ascending veins, until fallen and nearly decayed ; they are subcori- 

 aceous in texture, sharply and irregularly serrate and incisely lobed, 

 especially above the middle of the blade, the serratures glandular- 

 apiculate, rounded at the apex or short pointed ; at the base either 

 rounded or gradually narrowed from near the middle of the blade, 

 and prolonged into a glandular, tomentose petiole 5mm_ Ii ^cm 



22 Bot. Gaz. 28 : 407, 1899. 



23 Bot. Gaz. 30 : 338, i960. 



