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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



slightly and abruptly pointed at the apex, contracted and nar- 

 rowed, or on leading shoots sometimes rounded at the base, the 

 borders entire, glandular ; they are more or less pubescent at 

 maturity, especially on the lower surface along the midrib and in 

 the axils of the veins, bright green at flowering time, becoming 

 subcoriaceous in texture and fading with tones of yellow and 

 brown: petioles 5-i5 mm long, margined, glandular, pubescent, at 

 least when young : flowers i5mm_ 2 cm wide, opening about the 

 20th of March and when the leaves are about three-fourths 

 grown ; they are solitary, or more frequently in 2-4-flowered 

 corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets : pedicels and 

 hypanthium densely white-tomentose : sepals 4-5 mm long, glandu- 

 lar, slightly serrate, reflexed after anthesis : fruit, which ripens 

 and falls from the middle to the end of August, globose or sub- 

 globose, io-i5 mm in diameter, at maturity yellow or orange, 

 mostly flushed or cheeked with red, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, 

 8-9 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane: hypostyle 5-6 mm 

 long. 



Crataegus da^silis grows in sandy soil in central peninsular Florida. 

 The type specimens (B4SJ6), which are preserved in the Biltmore Her- 

 barium, were gathered at Lane Park, near Tavares. 



Crataegus dolosa n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-6 m tall with ashy-gray, rough or scaly 

 bark, the spreading or recurved branches sometimes armed with 

 chestnut-brown or gray spines i-5-3 cm long: leaves obovate, or 

 on leading shoots broadly ovate or orbicular, the blades i.5-4 cm 

 long, i-3 cm wide, or broader on the shoots, rounded or abruptly 

 pointed at the apex, contracted or narrowed, or on vigorous shoots 

 rounded at the base, the borders minutely dentate or nearly 

 entire; they are glabrous, or but slightly pubescent at maturity, 

 and when young are sparingly pubescent on both surfaces, espe- 

 cially on the midrib and principal veins, bright green, firm in 

 texture, fading with tones of yellow, brown and orange : petioles 

 5 mm -2 cm long, margined, glandular, pubescent, at least when 

 young: flowers i8-20 mm wide, opening early in April and when 

 the leaves are almost fully grown ; they are borne in simple, 

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



