BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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are more or less pubescent on both surfaces, especially at the 

 time of unfolding, bright green, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, 

 fading with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 5 mm -2 cm 

 long, margined, glandular, pubescent : flowers very large, 20-25 mm 

 wide, opening about the 25th of April and when the leaves are 

 almost or even fully grown ; they are produced in simple or sub- 

 simple, 3-6-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy, spur- 

 like branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium pilose-pubescent : sepals 

 6-8 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, 

 the anthers light yellow : fruit, which ripens about the middle of 

 September, subglobose, io-i5 mm thick, orange-red at maturity, 

 the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, the lateral surfaces 

 nearly plane : hypostyle 5-6 mm long. 



Crataegus fiorens is one of the most handsome thorns of the " flava group, " 

 especially noteworthy on account of the ample leaves and large flowers which 

 are freely produced, and the wealth of showy fruits. 



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

 115063), was collected at Columbus, Mississippi. 



Crataegus clara n. sp. 



A small tree 4-6 111 tall with dark gray or brownish rough bark, 

 or more frequently a large much-branched shrub with one or 

 more stems : branches usually armed with stout, chestnut-brown 

 or gray spines i.5-2.5 cm long : leaves obovate or obovate-cuneate, 

 the blades 2-4°™ long, i-2 cm broad, or larger on vigorous shoots, 

 rounded or pointed at the apex, narrowed or sometimes more 

 abruptly contracted at the base, the borders dentate or crenate- 

 dentate ; they are slightly pubescent beneath in age, lustrous 

 above and when young are more or less pubescent on both sur- 

 faces, especially along the midrib and veins and in their axils, 

 bright green, eventually subcoriaceous in texture, fading with tones 

 of yellow, orange and brown: petioles 5-i5 mm long, margined, 

 glandular, pubescent, at least when young : flowers i5-i8 mm wide, 

 opening early in 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 pubes- 

 cent : sepals 4-5 mm long, serrate, glandular, reflexed after anthe- 

 sis : stamens 20, the anthers white or very faintly tinged with 



