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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



DENTATE 



Fruit red at maturity 



Flowers 2-2. 5 cm broad: calyx-lobes 6-8 mm long 



Pomes oval, i.5-2 cm long: anthers yellow . . . C. alabamensis Beadle 31 

 Pomes subglobose, i-i.5 cm thick: anthers pale 



purple C. fortis 



Flowers smaller : calyx-lobes shorter 



Inflorescence densely woolly : leaves contracted 



at the base C. comfitalis 



Inflorescence pubescent : leaves cuneate . . . C. itisidiosa 

 Fruit yellow, orange or orange-red, the cheeks often 

 red 



Pedicels clothed with white spreading hairs : flow- 



ers 2-2. 5 cm wide 

 Leaves sharply dentate, mostly pointed . . . . C. Jlorens 

 Leaves crenate-dentate, mostly obtuse . . . . C. clara 

 Pubescence of the pedicels white-woolly 

 Anthers very small, less than i mm long 



Leaf margins very glandular : petioles short . C. $alla. 

 Leaf margins slightly glandular : petioles 



long C. ino^ps 



Anthers larger : flowers 2-2. 5 cm broad 



Nutlets 6-7 mm long C. arnica 



Nutlets 7-g mm long C. raveneli Sargent 32 



Crataegus fortis n. sp. 



A large shrub or occasionally a small tree 2-5™ tall with ashy- 

 gray or brownish, rough or scaly bark : leaves obovate or obovate- 

 cuneiform, the blades 2-4°™ long, i-3 cm wide, or broader on lead- 

 ing shoots, rounded or abruptly pointed at the apex, narrowed or 

 contracted at the base, the borders dentate ; they are glabrate at 

 maturity and when young are sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, 

 especially along the midrib and veins, bright green, subcoriaceous 

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

 oles 5-i5 mm long, margined, glandular, pubescent, at least when 

 young : flowers 2-2.5 cm wide, expanding towards the end of 

 April and when the leaves are about three-fourths grown ; they 

 are disposed in simple, 3-5-flowered corymbs which terminate 

 short, leafy branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium tomentose- 

 pubescent : sepals 6-8 mm long, , serrate, glandular, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers pale purple : fruit, which ripens 



3 1 Bot. Gaz. 30 : 342, 1900. 

 32 Bot. Gaz. 33 : 122, 1902. 



