BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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Crataegus Integra (Nash) 



Cratcegus Jlava integra Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 22 : 150, 1895. 



A small tree 4-5 111 tall with a trunk i-2 dm in diameter, clothed 

 with ashy-gray or dark, rough bark, the drooping branches infre- 

 quently armed with short, stout spines : leaves obovate or cuneate, 

 the blades i.5-4 cm long, 7 mm -2.5 cm wide, pointed or occasionally 

 rounded at the apex, contracted or narrowed at the base, the mar- 

 gins glandular, sometimes bluntly or undulately lobed ; they are 

 pubescent on the lower surface at maturity, glabrate or glabrous 

 above, and at the time of unfolding are but slightly pubescent on 

 the upper surface, pubescent beneath, especially along the midrib 

 and in the axils of the largest veins, bright green and eventually 

 somewhat lustrous on the upper surface, firm to subcoriaceous in 

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

 petioles 5 mm -2 cra long, margined, glandular, pubescent : flowers, 

 which expand about the 20th of March and when the leaves are 

 about two-thirds grown, i5-2o mm wide, disposed in simple, 3-5- 

 flowered corymbs : pedicels and hypanthium densely white-tomen- 

 tose : sepals 4-5 mm long, glandular, serrate, reflexed after anthesis: 

 stamens 20, the anthers light yellow : fruit, which ripens and falls 

 in August, globose, io-i5 mm in diameter, at maturity red, the flesh 

 orange-yellow, succulent : nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, the lateral 

 surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 5-6 mm long. 



Cratcegus integra grows in sandy woods and old fields in central peninsular 

 Florida. 



Crataegus adunca n. sp. 



A large shrub or small tree 2-5 m tall, sometimes with a short 

 trunk i-i.5 dm in diameter, clothed with ashy-gray or dark scaly or 

 rough bark, the crooked branches spreading and somewhat re- 

 curved, occasionally armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines 

 I -5 _2 -5 cm long: leaves obovate, 2-3 cm long exclusive of the 

 petioles, ^mn^.^cm w ide, or larger on leading shoots, abruptly 

 pointed or rounded at the apex and with a small tooth-like 

 point, contracted or narrowed at the base, the borders minutely 

 dentate or nearly entire, glandular, sometimes with shallow, 

 tooth-like lobes ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity, 

 and when young are pubescent along the midrib and principal 



