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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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

 short leafy branchlets: pedicels and hypanthium densely tomen- 

 tose : sepals about 5 mm long, glandular serrate, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers light yellow : fruit, which 

 ripens and falls in August, subglobose, io-i3 mm thick, at maturity 

 orange, blotched or cheeked with red, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, 

 6-7 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle occupy- 

 ing three-fourths of the ventral angle. 



Cratcegiis arnica was collected in sandy woods and along the borders of 

 roads at Ocala, Florida (type locality). 



The original specimens, representing flowers {B4004) and fruit (B4004 2 ) 

 from the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



ATTRIT^E 



Spines i-2 cm long : leaves very irregularly and coarsely dentate . C. attrita 

 Spines longer: leaves finely serrate-dentate C. teres Beadle 33 



Crataegus attrita n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5™ tall, sometimes with a slender 

 trunk i-i.5 dm in diameter covered with dark, rough or rimose 

 bark, the recurved, crooked branches often armed with gray or 

 chestnut-brown spines 1.5-2.5°™ long : leaves cuneate or obovate- 

 cuneiform, the blades 2-3. 5 cm long, jrnm^cm w ide, truncate, blunt 

 or even sharp-pointed at the apex, narrowed or contracted at 

 the base, the margins coarsely and irregularly dentate, especially 

 above the middle ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity, 

 and when young are sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, event- 

 ually firm or subcoriaceous in texture, bright green, fading with 

 tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles cmm_ 2 cm long, pubes- 

 cent, margined, glandular : flowers 20-22 mm wide, opening early 

 in April and when the leaves are two-thirds or more grown ; 

 they are either solitary or in 2-3-flowered corymbs which termi- 

 nate short, leafy branchlets or leafy fascicles : pedicels and hy- 

 panthium bearing a few weak hairs : sepals about 5 mm long, 

 glandular-serrate or nearly entire : stamens 20, the anthers light 

 yellow or nearly white : fruit, which ripens and falls towards 

 the end of August or early in September, subglobose, io-i4 mm 

 thick, at maturity yellow, splashed with red, the flesh soft : 



33 B. B. Studies 1 143, 1901. 



