BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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SARGENTIANiE 



Mature fruit yellow, orange-yellow or green, sometimes 

 cheeked with red 

 Ripe pomes often i cm or more in diameter 



Leaves acuminate : sepals long and broad . . . . C. sargenti Beadle 13 

 Leaves acute : sepals short and narrow 



Fruit subglobose or oval . C. fallens Beadle 14 



Fruit globose C. austrina 



Ripe pomes smaller 



Anthers pale purple : leaf-blades elongated . . . C. gilva 

 Anthers dark purple : leaf-blades not conspicu- 

 ously elongated C. contrita 



Mature fruit red or ruddy 



Ripe pomes oval or pyriform 



Fruit i cm or more thick C. venasta Beadle 15 



Fruit smaller C. inanis. 



Ripe pomes globose or nearly so 

 Leaves incised or incisely lobed 



Flowers 2o-25 mm wide, anthers yellow : leaves 



acuminate ; C. eximia 



Flowers smaller : anthers purplish 

 Fruit io-i3 mm in diameter 



Fruit depressed : leaves shallowly in- 

 cised C. tecta Beadle 16 



Fruit not depressed 



Leaves deeply incised C. ancisa 



Leaves shallowy incised C. alma 



Fruit smaller 



Anthers pale purple : fruiting pedicels 



j_ 2 cm ] on g £ -pinetorum Beadle 17 



Anthers dark purple : fruiting pedicels 



very short C. macilenta 



Leaves slightly if at all incised C. me?idosa 



Crataegus austrina n. sp. 



A small tree 4-6™ tall with a short trunk i-2 dm in diameter, 

 covered with dark gray or brownish scaly bark, or oftener a large, 

 much-branched shrub with one or more stems : spines stout, 

 2~4 cm long, chestnut-brown or gray : leaves ovate, oval or oblong- 

 oval, 2~5 cm long exclusive of the petioles, r-4 cm wide, or even 



i 3 Bot. Gaz. 28 : 407, 1899. 

 14 B. B. Studies I : 27, 1901. 

 1 5 Bot. Gaz. 30 : 338, 1900. 

 i'e B. B. Studies 1 : 26, 1901. 

 1 7 Bot. Gaz. 30 : 343, 1900. 



