BIT TMOKE 



BOTANICAL 



STUDIES 



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Crataegus constatis grows in sandy soil in woods at Columbus, Mississippi 

 Mype locality). 



The original specimens, representing flowers {H4187) and fruit (II5066) from 

 the same shrub, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus panda n. sp. 



A tree sometimes 6-7 111 tall with a trunk 3 d01 in diameter, cov- 

 ered with dark, rough bark, the crooked, recurved branches infre- 

 quently armed with short, stout spines r-2 cm long : leaves obovate 

 or cuneate, the blades 2-4°™ long, 1-2. 5 cm wide, or broader on 

 leading shoots, pointed or rounded and with an abrupt, sharp 

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

 nearly entire ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity and when 

 young are pubescent on both surfaces, especially on the midrib 

 and principal veins and in their axils, bright green and somewhat 

 lucid on the upper surface in age, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, 

 fading with tones of yellow, brown and orange : petioles 5-1 5 mm 

 long, margined, glandular, pubescent, at least when young : flow- 

 ers i5-20 mm wide, opening about the first of April and when the 

 leaves are about two-thirds grown ; they are produced in simple, 

 3-5-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets : 

 pedicels and hypanthium pubescent : sepals 4-5 mm long, serrate, 

 glandular, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers almost 

 white : fruit, which ripens and falls towards the end of August and 

 early in September, globose or depressed-globose, io-i5 mm in 

 diameter, at maturity orange-yellow, often tinged or cheeked with 

 red, the flesh orange-yellow, succulent : nutlets 3-5, about y mm 

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



Crataegus £anda grows in dry sandy soil at Tallahassee, Florida (type 

 locality). 



The type material, which is deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium, represents 

 both flowers (/I40J/) and fruit (H^g^) from the same tree. 



Crataegus dapsilis n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5™ tall, sometimes with a short trunk 

 i.5 dm in diameter, covered with ashy-gray, rough bark, the droop- 

 ing or recurved branches sometimes armed with chestnut-brown 

 or gray spines i-3 cm long : leaves obovate or cuneate, the blades 

 i.5-4 cm long, 7mm_ 2 .^cm w ide, or larger on the shoots, rounded or 



