BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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lower veins beneath, yellow-green, becoming darker in age, firm 

 in texture, fading in autumn with tones of yellow, brown and 

 orange : petioles 7 mm -2 cm long, margined, glandular, more or less 

 pubescent when young : flowers i5-20 mm wide, expanding early in 

 April and when the leaves are about half grown ; they are borne 

 in simple, 1-5-flowered corymbs which terminate very short, 

 leafy branchlets : pedicels short, like the hypanthium, pubescent : 

 sepals 3-5 mm long, serrate and glandular : stamens 20, the anthers 

 light yellow or nearly white : fruit, which ripens and falls in 

 August and early in September, globose, g-i3 mm in diameter, at 

 maturity red, the flesh orange-yellow, succulent : nutlets 3-5, 

 about 8 mm long, 3.5-4. 5 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral 

 surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle about half the length of the 

 ventral angle. 



( ratcegus galbana grows in open woods and on the borders of swamps near 

 River Junction, Florida (type locality). 



The type specimens, representing flowers {B2083) and fruit {H4969) from the 

 same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus abdita n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 3~6 m tall, the short trunk or main axis 

 clothed with dark ashy-gray or brownish bark : branches fre- 

 quently armed with stout chestnut-brown or gray spines i-2 cm 

 long : leaves obovate, oval or suborbicular, or on leading shoots 

 sometimes broadly ovate, the blades i.5-3-5 cm long, i-3 cm wide, 

 rounded or abruptly pointed at the apex, narrowed or contracted, 

 or occasionally rounded at the base, the margins irregularly den- 

 tate ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity, pubescent when 

 young on both surfaces, especially along the midrib and principal 

 veins and in their axils, bright green, firm in texture, fading with 

 tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 7 mm -2 cm long, mar- 

 gined, glandular, pubescent, at least when young : flowers 15- 

 20 mm wide, expanding early in April and when the leaves are 

 about two-thirds grown ; they are produced in simple, 3-5-flowered 

 corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets : pedicels mostly 

 i-i.5 cm long, like the hypanthium, white-tomentose : sepals 5~6 mm 

 long, serrate and glandular, reflexed after anthesis : fruit, which 

 ripens and falls in August and early in September, globose, 



