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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



purple : fruit, which ripens in September, globose, 9-i2 mm in 

 diameter, orange-red when ripe : nutlets 3-5, about y mm long, the 

 lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratcegns clara is common in sandy soil in oak woods between Chatta- 

 - hoochee and Bristol, Florida (type locality). 



The type material (114916) is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus pulla n. sp. 



A large shrub or small tree 3-5™ tall, sometimes with a trunk 

 i.5 dm in diameter, covered with dark rimose bark, the recurved or 

 pendulous branches infrequently armed : leaves obovate, cuneate, 

 elliptic or on leading shoots suborbicular, the blades 1.5-3°™ long, 

 7 mm -3 cm wide, either pointed, rounded or lobed at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or contracted or on the shoots rounded at the base, the 

 borders dentate, glandular; they are pubescent at maturity and 

 when young are more densely coated with soft hairs, especially 

 along the midrib and principal veins and in their axils, dark, 

 dingy green, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, fading with tones 

 of yellow and brown : petioles 5-i2 mm long, pubescent, margined, 

 glandular : flowers i4-i7 mm wide, opening about the 25th of April 

 and when the leaves are two-thirds grown ; they are produced in 

 simple, 2-5-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy, spur- 

 like branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 

 4-6 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, 

 the anthers light yellow : fruit, which ripens and falls in Sep- 

 tember, subglobose or oval, 9-i2 mm thick, 10-14™™ long, at ma- 

 turity yellow or orange-yellow flushed with red, the flesh soft : 

 nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : 

 hypostyle occupying about three-fourths of the ventral angle. 



Cratcegns pulla grows in sandy soil along the Tombigbee river at Columbus, 

 Mississippi (type locality). 



The original specimens, consisting of flowers (H4188) and fruit (II5063), are 

 preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus inops n. sp. 



A small tree sometimes 6-j m tall with a trunk 2 dm in diameter 

 clothed with rough or rimose bark, the spreading or recurved 

 branches frequently armed with gray or chestnut-brown spines 



