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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



red or russet-red, 8-i2 mm in diameter, containing from 3-5 hard, 

 bony nutlets, which measure 7.5-9 mm in length and 4-5 mm in 

 thickness from back to inner angle and display prominent dor- 

 sal ridges and grooves and plane lateral surfaces. 



Cratcegus buckleyi is one of the most common thorns in the mountains of 

 North Carolina and adjacent Tennessee and Virginia, inhabiting woods and 

 banks and standing in company with oaks, pines and hickories. It is well repre- 

 sented in herbaria from the region noted, and has shared in common with other 

 southern forms in the impersonation of C. coccinea, C. glandulosa and C. 

 rotundifolia. Having noticed a specimen of the proposed species collected along 

 the French Broad river near Hot Springs by Mr. S. B. Buckley many years ago, 

 the oldest specimen I have seen, I have decided to commemorate his name. C. 

 buckleyi is very closely related to C boy?itoni n , but easily recognized by the pur- 

 ple color of the anthers, the stalked glands below the middle of the calyx seg- 

 ments — a character not found in C. boyntoni — and also by the larger seeds and 

 relatively later period of blossoming. 



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

 preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus tecta n. sp. 



A shrub 2-5 m tall, with one or more stems : bark dark ashy- 

 gray, frequently blackened near the base, fissured, the surface 

 broken into numerous small scaly pieces ; of the branches gray 

 tinged with reddish-brown : spines 1-4. 5 cm long, gray or chestnut- 

 brown : leaves ovate or round-ovate, 2.5-9 cm long, including the 

 petiole, 1.5-6°™ broad, sharply and irregularly serrate and incisely 

 lobed, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base and 

 prolonged in margined, gland-bearing petioles cjmm^cm long, thin 

 to firm in texture, glabrous or with a few hairs at the time of 

 unfolding, bright green above, paler below, fading in autumn to 

 tones of yellow and brown : flowers, which appear when the 

 leaves are nearly fully grown, borne in 3-6 - flowered, glabrous 

 corymbs, expanding in the vicinity of Albertville, Alabama (type 

 locality), early in May : pedicels 5-1 5 mm long, glabrous, bearing 

 one or more narrow, pectinately-glandular, caducous bractlets : 

 calyx obconic, glabrous, the segments 3-4 mm long, serrate or 

 sparingly so to entire, reflexed after anthesis : petals nearly or- 

 bicular, 6. 5-8 mm in diameter: stamens normally 20, 4~5 mm long, 

 the anthers light purple : styles 3-5, surrounded at the base 



21 Bot. Gaz. *8 : 409, 1899. 



