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with pale hairs : fruit, which ripens and falls the last of Septem- 

 ber and first of October, red, globose, io-i3 mm in diameter: 

 nutlets 3-5, hard and bony, 6~7 mm long, 3.5-4.5 mm measured 

 from the back to the inner angle, the lateral faces nearly plane 

 and the back strongly ridged and grooved. 



Cralcegus tecta is abundant in rocky woodlands in Marshall county, Ala- 

 bama. Contrasted with C. buckleyi, above proposed, the species just described 

 may be recognized by the smaller flowers, thinner leaves, more numerous sta- 

 mens and smaller habit of growth. 



The type material is preserved in Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus pallens n. sp. 



A tree in its best stages of development, 5-7™ tall, or under 

 less favorable conditions a much-branched shrub with one or sev- 

 eral stems : bark of the trunk dark ashy-gray, frequently much 

 blackened near the base, the surface broken into numerous small 

 plate-like scales by shallow fissures : trunk and larger branches 

 armed with strong gray or chestnut-brown spines, which are fre- 

 quently compound ; branchlets relatively slender, the bark smooth, 

 in color varying from dark gray through shades of reddish-brown to 

 bright reddish-brown on the new growth : spines straight or slightly 

 curved, dark chestnut-brown, 3-6 cm long: buds globular, bright 

 reddish-brown : leaves, which appear before the flowers, light or 

 even yellowish-green in color, fading in October with decided tones 

 of yellow and brown, thin to subcoriaceous in texture, 2-8 cm long 

 including the petiole, i.5-5 cm broad; they are ovate, round-ovate 

 or occasionally obovate in outline, acute at the apex, the borders 

 sharply and irregularly serrate or incisely lobed, contracted at the 

 base and prolonged into margined and glandular petioles i-3 cm 

 long, or frequently rounded or on the strong shoots truncate or 

 subcordate at the base : flowers, which expand at Biltmore, N. C. 

 (type locality), about the tenth of May, produced in simple, mostly 

 5-7-flowered) glandular-bracteate corymbs : pedicels i-2 cm long, 

 glabrous, bearing one or several pectinately-glandular caducous 

 bractlets : calyx obconic, glabrous, the divisions 3-5 mm long, glan- 

 dular-serrate or pectinately-glandular, glabrous except a few hairs 

 along the ventral surface : petals orbicular, 6~9 mm in diameter, the 

 claw short and broad, persistent for a day or so : stamens normally 



