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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



acute, tooth-like lobes ; they are glabrous in age, and when young 

 bear some pubescence on both surfaces, especially along the 

 midrib and bases of the principal veins, firm to subcoriaceous in 

 texture, bright green, fading with tones of yellow, orange and 

 brown: petioles 5-i5 mm long, margined, glandular: flowers " 1 6- 

 20 mm broad, opening about the last of March and when the leaves 

 are more than half grown ; they are produced in simple, 3-6-flow- 

 ered corymbs which terminate short leafy branchlets : stamens 20, 

 the anthers pale purple : fruit, which ripens and falls in August 

 and early in September, pyriform, io-i2 mm thick, I2-I5 mm long, at 

 maturity orange, diffused or cheeked with red, the flesh yellow or 

 orange-yellow, soft: nutlets 3-5, mostly 3, 7-8. 5 mm long, the 

 lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle two-thirds as long as the 

 ventral angle. 



Crataegus vise?ida grows in sandy soil near Bristol, Florida (type locality), 

 where a number of very large individuals have been noticed. 



The type specimens, consisting of flowers {H40J/) and fruit (H4goj) from the 

 same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus sodalis n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3-5™ tall, often with two or more 

 stems, with dark gray or brownish black, rough bark : branches 

 stiff and mostly ascending, or the tips somewhat recurved : leaves 

 obovate, oval or orbicular, the blades i.5-2.5 cm long, 8 mm -2.5 cm 

 wide, or larger on leading shoots, rounded or abruptly pointed 

 at the apex, rounded or contracted, or on leading shoots truncate 

 at the base, the borders minutely dentate and glandular, fre- 

 quently with small tooth-like projections, especially on the larg- 

 est leaves ; they are pubescent or glabrate, firm to subcoriaceous 

 in texture, dull green, fading in autumn with tones of yellow and 

 brown : petioles 5-1 5 mm long, margined, glandular, pubescent : 

 flowers produced in simple, 3-5-flowered corymbs : pedicels 5 mm - 

 i cm long, pilose - pubescent : hypanthium pubescent : sepals 

 3-4. 5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, glandular, serrate, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens normally 20 : fruit, which ripens and falls in 

 August and early in September, pyriform, 8-1 2 mm thick, i2-i5 mm 

 long, at maturity orange-red, the flesh orange-yellow, soft : nut- 

 lets mostly 3, about 8 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : 

 hypostyle 5-6 mm long. 



