BILTMOKE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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with tones of yellow, brown and orange : petioles 5 mm -2 cm long, 

 margined, sometimes glandular : flowers i5-i8 mm wide, expanding 

 about the middle of April and when the leaves are about one- 

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

 3-5-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets : 

 pedicels 5 mm — i cm long, sparsely pubescent ; hypanthium glabrous 

 or with a few weak hairs at the base : sepals 3-4 mm long, glandu- 

 lar, reflexed after anthesis : stamens about 20, the anthers nearly 

 yellow : fruit, which ripens and falls the last of September or 

 early in October, pyriform, 7-9™™ thick, 9-1 2 mm long, red at ma- 

 turity : nutlets mostly 2-3, 5~6 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle a trifle less than half the length of the nutlet. 



Crataegus agrestina grows in open woods and fields, or borders the 

 swamps near Evergreen, Alabama (type locality). 



The original specimens (B20J0 and Bjj6j) are preserved in the Biltmore 

 Herbarium. 



Crataegus extraria n. sp. 



A large shrub 2-4™ tall, usually with several stems, clothed 

 with dark gray or brownish, rough or scaly bark, the spreading 

 or ascending branches freely armed with stout chestnut-brown or 

 gray spines 3-5 cm long : leaves oval, obovate, or on leading shoots, 

 ovate or suborbicular, the blades 2-5 cm long, i.5-4 cm wide, acute 

 at the apex, narrowed or contracted, or on the shoots rounded at 

 the base, the borders sharply serrate and incised ; they are gla- 

 brous, or when young bear a few weak hairs on the upper surface 

 on the lower portion of the midrib and bases of the principal 

 veins, firm, to subcoriaceous in texture, bright but deep green, 

 fading with tones of yellow, brown and orange : petioles 7mm— 2 cm 

 long, margined, glandular: flowers i6-20 mm wide, expanding early 

 in May and when the leaves are three-fourths grown ; they are 

 disposed in simple, 3-5-flowered, glandular-bracteate corymbs 

 which terminate short, leafy branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium 

 pilose-pubescent : sepals 4~5 mm long, usually glandular-serrate, 

 reflexed after anthesis : stamens usually 12-15, the anthers pale 

 purple : fruit which ripens and falls in September and October, 

 subglobose or oval, 9-1 2 mm thick, red at maturity : nutlets mostly 



