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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



midrib and bases of the largest veins and in the groove of the mar- 

 gined, glandular petioles, which are S~ 1 5 mm l° n g> nrm to subcoria- 

 ceous in texture, yellow-green at maturity, bronze-red at the time 

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

 orange : flowers, which open about the middle of April, and when 

 the leaves are about half grown, produced in simple, glandular- 

 bracteate, 3-5-flowered corymbs : pedicels and hypanthium gla- 

 brous : sepals lanceolate, 4-6™™ long, serrate, glandular, reflexed 

 after anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers purplish : fruit, which 

 ripens in September, globose, io-i3 mm m diameter, red at 

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

 6 mm long, 3 mm measured dorso-ventrally, the lateral surfaces 

 nearly plane : hypostyle a little more than half the length of the 

 ventral angle. 



Cratcegus limata was first collected at Warm Springs, Georgia (type local- 

 ity), on September 8, 1899. Again in the spring of 1901 the original plants were 

 visited and my earlier impressions of the validity of the species confirmed. Hills 

 and dry woods, western and northwestern Georgia. 



The type material {B1139 and B4130) is preserved in the Biltmore 

 Herbarium. 



Crataegus mira n. sp. 



A large shrub 2-3™ tall with one or more stems clothed with 

 dark gray, rough or scaly bark, the branches armed with stout, 

 chestnut-brown or gray spines 2-5°™ long : leaves orbicular or 

 very broadly ovate, mostly broader than long, the blades 

 long, 2-5. 5 cm wide, abruptly pointed at the apex, rounded or con- 

 tracted, or on leading shoots truncate or cordate at the base, the 

 borders dentate or serrate-dentate and incised or with tooth-like 

 lobes ; they are glabrous when fully grown, at the time of unfold- 

 ing bearing some pubescence on the upper surface, especially near 

 the base of the midrib, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, bright 

 green, fading with tones of yellow, brown and orange : petioles 

 4-i2 mm long, margined, glandular : flowers i6-20 mm wide, expand- 

 ing early in May and when the leaves are more than half grown ; 

 they are produced in simple, 3-6-flowered corymbs which termi- 

 nate short leafy branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium sparsely 

 pilose : sepals 4-6 mm long, serrate, glandular, reflexed after anthe- 

 sis : stamens varying in number, but usually 12-17, the anthers 



