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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



PULCHERRIMJE 



Fruit oval at maturity, the flesh attenuate with the pedicel 

 Anthers dark : leaf-blade elongated 



Fruit 6-8 mm long C. fulcherrima Ashe 18 



Fruit io-i2 mm long C. abstrnsa 



Anthers light : leaf-blade short . C. lem's 



Fruit globose or nearly so, the flesh not attenuate with the 

 pedicel 

 Leaves more than 2 cm wide 



Leaf-blades conspicuously elongated, 5~8 cm long . . C. incilis Beadle 19 

 Leaf-blades shorter 



Pomes depressed-globose : leaves 3~5 cm broad . C. illustris 

 Pomes not depressed : leaves narrower 



Anthers dark purple C. ofima Beadle 20 



Anthers pale purple 



Leaf-borders with round, usually sharp- 

 pointed lobes C. assimilis 



Leaf-borders with acute lobes C. robur 



Leaves (exclusive of the shoots) mostly less than 2 cm 



wide C. concinna 



Crataegus abstrusa n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5 m tall with a slender trunk clothed 

 with gray or brownish scaly bark, the spreading or ascending 

 branches sometimes armed w T ith chestnut-brown or gray spines 



1- 3 cm long : leaves oval, ovate, obovate or orbicular, the blades 



2- 4. 5 cm long, i-5-3.5 cm broad, obtuse or slightly pointed at the 

 apex, contracted at the base, the borders serrate and with shal- 

 low, rounded, lobe -like incisions ; they are glabrous, or when 

 young bear a few pale, deciduous hairs along the midrib and 

 lower portions of the largest veins on the upper surface, firm to 

 subcoriaceous in texture, bright green, fading in autumn with 

 tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles sm^-2 cm long, mar- 

 gined, remotely glandular : flowers i5-20 mm wide, opening the 

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

 than half grown ; they are disposed in glandular-bracteate, sim- 

 ple, 3-7-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets 

 of the present season's growth : pedicels 5-1 2 mm long, glabrous, 

 as is the hypanthium : sepals triangular-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, 



18 Journ. E. Mitchell Soc. 16 2 : 77, 1900. 

 !9 B. B. Studies 1 141, 1901. 

 20 B. B. Studies I :4c, 1901. 



