NEW SPECIES OF THORNS FROM THE 

 SOUTHEASTERN STATES 



Crataegus buckleyi n. sp. 



A tree frequently attaining a height of 8 m and a diameter of 

 trunk of i-i.75 dm , or more often a large much-branched shrub 

 with one or more stems : trunk branched a little above the sur- 

 face of the ground or occasionally presenting a clear stem of 

 3--4 m clothed with dark gray bark which is often tinged with 

 brown, or much blackened, the surface broken into numerous 

 small plate-like scales and marked by shallow fissures : branches 

 horizontal or ascending, armed, as in the trunk, with strong, 

 much-branched spines : branchlets dark ashy-gray or reddish- 

 brown, slender, bearing short, stout spines 2-4 cm long, which 

 are dark chestnut-brown in color and usually a little curved : 

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

 grown or more at flowering time, glabrous at maturity, thin at 

 first but eventually subcoriaceous in texture, yellowish-green, 

 2-7 cm long including the petiole, i~5 cm wide, or even larger on 

 vigorous shoots, fading in October with tones of yellow and 

 brown ; they are ovate or round-ovate in outline, sharply and 

 irregularly serrate and incisely lobed, acute at the apex, rounded 

 or narrowed at the base and prolonged into a margined and 

 glandular petiole i-3 cm long, or on vigorous shoots larger and 

 more deeply lobed and with truncate or subcordate base : flow- 

 ers, which expand in the vicinity of Biltmore, North Carolina 

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

 glandular-bracteate, mostly 3-7-flowered corymbs : pedicels gla- 

 brous, 8-1 2 mm long, bearing one or more pectinately-glandular 

 caducous bractlets : calyx obconic, glabrous, the divisions 3-5 mni 

 long, glandular - serrate and pectinately-glandular below the 

 middle, reflexed after anthesis, mostly persistent and coloring 

 slightly with the fruit : petals orbicular, or broader than long, 

 8 mm -i cm in diameter, the claw at the base broad and short : 

 stamens 10, 6-8 mm long, the anthers purplish : styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at the base with pale hairs : fruit subglobose, angled, 



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