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pedicels and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 4~5 mrn long, serrate, 

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

 yellow or nearly white : fruit, which ripens and falls early in Sep- 

 tember, subglobose or short-oval, o,-i2 mm thick, yellow or orange 

 at maturity, sometimes with flushed cheeks : nutlets 3-5, 7~8 mm 

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



Crataegus dolosa grows in dry woods at Abbeville, Henry country, Alabama 

 (type locality). 



The original specimens, which are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium, 

 represent flowers (/I^r/o) and fruit (H3036) from the same individual. 



, Crataegus rava n. sp. 



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

 i.5 dm in diameter, covered with ashy-gray, either rough or scaly 

 bark, the crooked, slightly drooping branches often armed with 

 stout, chestnut-brown or gray spines i.5-3 cm long: leaves obo- 

 vate, cuneate or spatulate, the blades i-3 cm long, 7 mm -2 .5 cm wide, 

 rounded and mostly with a short abrupt point at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or contracted at the base, the borders glandular and nearly 

 entire ; they are pubescent or glabrate at maturity, and when 

 young are gray-green and pubescent on both surfaces, especially 

 on the midrib and veins and in their axils, becoming bright green, 

 firm to subcoriaceous in texture, fading with tones of yellow, 

 orange and brown: petioles 5-i5 mm lorg, margined, glandular, 

 pubescent, at least when young : flowers i5 mm -2 cm wide, expand- 

 ing early in April, and when the leaves are about half grown ; 

 they are sometimes solitary, but mostly in 2-4-flowered corymbs 

 which terminate short, leafy branchlets or fascicles of leaves : 

 pedicels very short, like the hypanthium, densely tomentose : 

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

 mens 20, the anthers light yellow or almost white : fruit, which 

 ripens and falls about the last of August, globose or subglobose, 

 io-i2 mm in diameter, when ripe yellow or orange-yellow, cheeked 

 or splotched with red, the flesh succulent : nutlets 3-5, about J mm 

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



Cratcegus rava was found in open woods, mostly in sandy soil, near Talla- 

 hassee, Florida (type locality). 



The original specimens, representing flowers (H4064) and fruit {II4Q42) from 

 the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



