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nutlets 3-5, y-g mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypos- 

 tyle two-thirds as long as the ventral angle. 



Crataegus attrita grows in sandy upland woods at Ozark, Alabama (type 

 locality). 



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

 represent flowers (H4/16) and fruit (Iljoog) from the same individual. 



SENT/E 



Leaf-blades with long cuneate bases 



Fruit red C. senta Beadle 3 * 



Fruit orange with ruddy cheeks C. cullasagensis Ashe 85 



Leaf-blades suborbicular with rounded or abruptly con- 

 tracted bases C. disbar Beadle 36 



ANISOPHYLL^ 



Fruit orange, often with flushed cheeks C, anisophylla 



Fruit red or reddish 



Vernal leaves slightly pubescent or glabrate 



Leaf-borders subentire C. frugalis 



Leaves lobed and toothed C. viaria 



Vernal leaves scurfy-tomentose 



Anthers yellow : fruit globose or subglobose 



Leaves conspicuously lobed, toothed and crisped . . . C. cirrata 

 Leaves subentire or with shallow lobes and teeth . . . C. arguta 

 Anthers white : fruit subglobose or oval C. laxa 



Crataegus anisophylla n. sp. 



A large shrub or a tree sometimes 6 m tall with a short trunk 

 i.5-2 dm in diameter, clothed with dark brown, either rough or 

 rimose bark, the drooping branches often armed with gray or 

 chestnut-brown spines i-2 cm long : leaves spatulate or ouneate, 

 the blades 2~4 cm long, 5 mm -i .5°" wide, or a little broader on the 

 shoots, ro'unded, pointed or lobed at the apex, wedge-shaped at 

 the base, the margins dentate and lobed above the middle ; they 

 are glabrous or nearly so at maturity, and when youDg are pubes- 

 cent along the midrib and veins and in their axils, bright green, 

 thin to firm in texture, fading in autumn with tones of yellow, 

 brown and orange : petioles c™™~ofm long, winged, remotely gland- 

 ular : flowers about 1 5 mm wide, opening towards the end of March 

 or early in April and when the leaves are about half grown ; they 



34 Bot. Gaz. 30:341, 1900. 



35 Journ. E. Mitchell Soc. 17 1 : 10, 1900. 

 3 6 B. B. Studies 1 : 28, 1901. 



