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faces nearly plane : hypostyle a little less than half the length of 

 the ventral angle. 



Cratcegas madlenta grows in rocky woods and glades near Albertville, 

 Marshall county, Alabama (type locality). 



The type specimens, consisting of flowers {H4283) and fruit (flj20j) from 

 the same shrub, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus mendosa n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 3-6'" tall with a short trunk sometimes 

 i-i.5 dm in diameter covered with dark gray scaly bark, the 

 branches spreading or ascending, sometimes armed with chest- 

 nut-brown or gray spines 2-5 cm long : leaves oval, ovate or elliptic, 

 occasionally ovate-lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, the blades 

 3-6 cm long, i.5-4.5 cm wide, bluntly pointed or even rounded at the 

 apex, rounded or contracted at the base, the borders serrate, rarely 

 very shallowly and bluntly incised ; they are glabrous, or at the 

 time of unfolding bear a few weak caducous hairs along the midrib 

 on the upper surface, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, bright 

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

 petioles 1-3. 5 cm long, winged, remotely glandular: flowers 15- 

 i8 mm wide, expanding early in May and when the leaves are 

 almost fully grown ; they are produced in simple, 3-6-flowered 

 corymbs which terminate short leafy branchlets of the present 

 season's growth : pedicels i cm or less long, glabrous, as is the 

 hypanthium : sepals 3-4 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens about 20, the anthers very faintly tinged with 

 purple : fruit, which ripens and falls in October, globose or sub- 

 globose, 8-1 o mm in diameter, red at maturity, the flesh firm : nut- 

 lets 3-5, 5~6 mm long, 3-4 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral 

 surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle about 3 mm long. 



Cratcegus mendosa has been found in rocky woods and glades in Marshall 

 county, Alabama, where, near Albertville (type locality), it is abundant. Speci- 

 mens of this most distinct species were first collected in July, 1899, but ripe and 

 perfect fruiting specimens were not available until the autumn of 1901, owing 

 mainly to the attacks of a species of fungus which affected the ripening of the 

 pomes. 



The type material, consisting of flowers {H4336) and fruit (H521Q) from the 

 same tree, is deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



