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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STL/DIES 



Crataegus inanis n. sp. 



A shrub 2-4™ tall with dark gray or brownish-black, smooth 

 or scaly bark : branches, which are armed with chestnut-brown or 

 gray spines, spreading or ascending, the bark gray or reddish- 

 brown, that of the young shoots marked by small pale lenticels : 

 leaves ovate, broadly ovate or oval, sometimes suborbicular in 

 outline, 2-5 cm long exclusive of the petioles, i.5-5 cm wide, acute or 

 short-pointed at the apex, rounded or abruptly contracted at the 

 base, the borders serrate and incised ; they are glabrous at ma- 

 turity, but at the time of unfolding bear a few weak hairs on the 

 upper side of the midrib, thin to firm in texture, bright green, 

 fading in autumn with tones of red, yellow and brown : petioles 



1- 2 cm long, winged : flowers i4-i8 mm in diameter, expanding 

 early in May and when the leaves are nearly grown ; they are 

 produced in 3-6-flowered corymbs which terminate short," leafy 

 branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium glabrous : sepals 3-4 mm 

 long, serrate and glandular near the apex, reflexed after anthesis : 

 stamens normally 20, the anthers yellow : fruit, which ripens and 

 falls in October, short- oval or slightly pyriform, 6-8 mm wide, red 

 or ruddy at maturity, the flesh firm : nutlets 3-5, about 6 mm long, 

 the lateral surfaces nearly plane and the back ridged and grooved : 

 hypostyle occupying about half of the ventral angle. 



Crataegus inanis frequents the rocky woods and glades of Marshall county, 

 Alabama, where, a few miles from Albertville (type locality), the species is not 

 uncommon. 



The type material, representing flowers {H4306) and fruit {H4J06 2 ) from the 

 same plant, is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus eximia n. sp. 



A shrub 2-4 m tall with dark gray scaly bark and spreading 

 branches which are armed with stout, chestnut-brown or gray 

 spines 3-7 cm long : leaves ovate and ovate-lanceolate, the blades 

 3_8 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded 

 or contracted, or on leading shoots sometimes truncate at the 

 base, the borders serrate and incised ; they are glabrous soon 

 after the time of unfolding, firm in texture, bright green, fading 

 "in autumn with tones of yellow, orange, red and brown : flowers 



2- 2. 5 cm broad, opening from the middle to the last of May and 



