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or orange- red at maturity, the flesh soft: nutlets 3-5, 8-9 mm long, 

 the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 6-7 mm long. 



Cratcegus tristis is abundantly represented on the hills about Rome, Georgia 

 (type locality), and throughout the adjacent region. Apparently first collected 

 by Mr. C. L. Boynton and the writer on September 19, 1899, and subsequently 

 by Professor C. S. Sargent, April 22, 1900. 



The type material, representing flowers (B4749) and fruit (B4/49 2 ) from the 

 same tree, is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus egens n. sp. 



A tree 4-7™ tall with a trunk sometimes 2 dm in diameter, cov- 

 ered with dark, rough bark, the branches crooked and recurved : 

 leaves obovate, cuneate or spatulate, the blades i-3 cm long, 5 mm - 



2- 5 cm wide, abruptly pointed at the apex, narrowed or contracted 

 at the base, the borders dentate, glandular and with tooth-like 

 lobes above the middle ; they are glabrate at maturity and when 

 young are more or less pubescent on both surfaces, especially on 

 the midrib and prominent veins and in their axils, at first dull 

 green, becoming bright green in age, firm to subcoriaceous in 

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

 petioles 3-i5 mm long, glandular, pubescent, at least when young : 

 flowers i4-i8 mm wide, opening about the first of April and when 

 the leaves are half to two-thirds grown ; they are either solitary 

 or in simple, 2-4-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy 

 branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium densely white-woolly : sepals 



3- 4 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 

 20, the anthers almost white : fruit, which ripens and falls about 

 the last of August, subglobose or slightly oval, 9-1 i mm thick, at 

 maturity orange-red with ruddy cheeks, the flesh orange-yellow, 

 succulent : nutlets 3-5, about j mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratcegus egens grows in sandy soil near Bristol, Florida (type locality), 

 and was first collected in the same region by Dr. A. W. Chapman, possibly ten 

 years ago. Later specimens, which are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium, 

 and made by Mr. T. G. Harbison, April 1, 1901 (Ifyoj?) and August 23, 1901 

 (H4909), both from the same tree, have been used as the basis of the description. 



MICHAUXIAN^E. 



Leaves abruptly contracted at the base 

 Leaves with long cuneate bases . . . 



C. michauxi Pers. :t 

 C. lanala 



»0 Syn. PI. 2 : 38, 1807. 



