BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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nearly yellow : fruit, which ripens and falls in September and 

 October, subglobose, io-i2 mm in diameter : nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm 

 long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 4-5 mm long. 



Cratcegus mira is truly a remarkable thorn. The dilated leaf-blades, which 

 are almost invariably broader than long, present a character hitherto unnoticed 

 in this section of the genus. 



The original specimens, which are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium, 

 were collected at Marietta, Georgia, and represent both flowers (B42S7) and fruit 

 (B4.287 2 ) from the same shrub. 



visenda 



Fruit pyriform, yellow or orange-yellow, often flushed or 



cheeked with red 



Leaves with very acute tooth-like lobes C. visenda 



Leaves subentire or with blunt or rounded lobes 



Blades suborbicular, abruptly contracted at the base . C. sodalis 



Blades elongated, the base cuneiform C. furtiva 



Fruit subglobose or oval 



Fruit red or scarlet : anthers very small, bright purple . C. arrogans 

 Fruit orange-red 



Leaves with large blunt or rounded lobes C. egregia 



Leaves with numerous small, tooth-like lobes 

 Branches spreading or ascending 



Inflorescence pubescent C. annosa 



Inflorescence glabrous C. calva 



Branches drooping 



Anthers pink or pale purple : inflorescence 

 pubescent 



Leaves glandular-dentate and with tooth- 

 like lobes C. tristis 



Leaves dentate and cleft . '. C. qutesita Beadle 29 



Anthers white : inflorescence densely white- 

 woolly C. egens 



Crataegus visenda n. sp. 



A tree sometimes io m tall with a trunk 2.5~3 dm in diameter 

 covered with dark gray or brownish, rough bark, the crooked, 

 nearly horizontal or ascending branches often armed with stout, 

 chestnut-brown or gray spines i-2 cm long : leaves ovate, obovate 

 or orbicular, the blades 2-4 cm long, 1-3. 5 cm wide, acute or ab- 

 ruptly pointed, or occasionally rounded at the apex, contracted 

 at the base, the borders finely dentate and usually with several 



2 9 B. B. Studies 1:33, 1901. 



