BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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i-2 cm long: leaves cimeate, 1.5-3.5°™ long exclusive of the peti- 

 oles, 7^m-2.5 cm wide, or broader on leading shoots, rounded, 

 abruptly pointed br lobed at the apex, wedge-shaped or more 

 abruptly contracted at the base, the margins dentate above the 

 middle ; they are pubescent on the lower surface at maturity, 

 especially along the midrib and principal veins and when young 

 are pubescent on both surfaces, bright green, thin to firm in 

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

 5 mm -2-5 cm long, pubescent, margined, glandular: flowers i8-20 mm 

 wide, opening early in April and when the leaves are almost fully 

 grown ; they are produced in simple, 3-5-flowered corymbs which 

 terminate short leafy branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium tomen- 

 tose : sepals 3-4 mm long, serrate, glandular, reflexed after anthe- 

 sis : stamens 20, the anthers light yellow or nearly white : fruit, 

 which ripens and falls during the last of August and early in 

 September, globose, io-i4 mm in diameter, at maturity orange, 

 flushed or diffused with red, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, about J mm 

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



Cratcegus inops grows in dry sandy soil in oak woods at Ozark, Alabama 

 (type locality). 



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

 consist of flowers (H41/J) and fruit (H^ooj) from the same tree. 



Crataegus arnica n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3~6 m tall, sometimes with a short 

 trunk 2.5 dm in diameter covered with dark, rough or rimose bark, 

 the recurved branches infrequently armed : leaves cuneate or 

 oblong-cuneiform, or on leading shoots broadly ovate, the blades 

 1.5-3. 5 cm long, 7 mm -2-5 cm wide, or broader on the shoots, mostly 

 pointed or lobed at the apex, narrowed or contracted at the base, 

 the glandular borders dentate above the middle ; they are pubes- 

 cent when young and at maturity are lucid, bright green and 

 glabrate on the upper surface, pale green and pubescent beneath, 

 especially along the midrib and veins, firm to subcoriaceous in 

 texture, fading in autumn with tones of yellow, orange and 

 brown : petioles 5 mm -2.5 cm long, margined, glandular, pubescent, 

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

 20th of March and when the leaves are two-thirds grown ; they 



