BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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lets 3-5, about 5 mm long, the lateral surfaces plane : hypostyle 

 about 2 mm long. 



Crataegus gilva inhabits the rocky woods, banks and glades of Marshall 

 county, Alabama, and is common a few miles from Albertville, where the origi- 

 nal specimens were collected. 



The type, representing flowers {H4374) and fruit {H4jy4 l ) from the same 

 shrub, is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus contrita n. sp. 



A tree sometimes 6-7™ tall with a trunk sometimes i-2 dm in 

 diameter, covered with ashy gray or brownish scaly bark, or more 

 frequently a large shrub with spreading branches : spines stout, 

 1-2. 5 cm long, chestnut-brown or gray : leaves ovate, oval or 

 oblong, rarely short-obovate or suborbicular, the blades 2-5°™ 

 long, i.5~5 cm wide, acute or bluntly terminated at the apex, 

 rounded or contracted at the base, the borders serrate and incised ; 

 they are glabrous at maturity, but at the time of unfolding bear 

 a few white hairs along the midrib and lower portions of the 

 largest veins on the upper surface, firm in texture, green or yellow- 

 green, fading with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 

 5 mm -2 cm long, margined : flowers i2-i7 mm wide, opening during 

 the last of March or early in April and when the leaves are about 

 half grown ; they are produced in simple glandular-bracteate, 

 3-7-flowered corymbs and terminate short, leafy shoots of the 

 present season's growth : pedicels and hypanthium glabrous : 

 sepals 3-5 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : sta- 

 mens 20, the anthers dark purple : fruit, which ripens and falls in 

 September and October, subglobose, 7-9'™ in diameter, yellow- 

 green or orange at maturity, often with ruddy cheeks, the flesh 

 firm : nutlets 2-3, rarely 3-5, about 6 mm long, the lateral surfaces 

 nearly plane and the back grooved and ridged : hypostyle occupy- 

 ing a trifle more than half of the ventral angle. 



Crataegus contrita is common in dry woods and uplands near River Junc- 

 tion, Florida (type locality), and is also represented from stations in southwestern 

 Georgia. 



The type material, representing flowers (B2078) and fruit (B2oyS 2 ), is pre- 

 served in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



