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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



are solitary or in simple, 2-4-flowered corymbs which terminate 

 short leafy branchlets or fascicles of leaves : pedicels and hypan- 

 thium tomentose : sepals 3-4 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed 

 after anthesis : stamens about 20, the anthers yellow : fruit, which 

 ripens and falls in August, globose or subglobose, 6-8 mm in diam- 

 eter, orange, flushed or cheeked with red when fully ripe, the 

 flesh soft: nutlets 3-5, 4-5-5.5 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle about 3 mm long. 



Cratcegns anisofihylla grows in sandy soil and on the banks of the St. John's 

 river near Jacksonville, Florida (type locality), and is common on the high sandy 

 banks of the river below the city. 



The type specimens, representing flowers {B4067) and fruit (B406'/' 1 ) from the 

 same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus frugalis n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3-5™ tall, the slender trunk or main 

 axis covered with dark, rough bark : branches spreading or droop- 

 ing, sometimes armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines i-5-3 cm 

 long : leaves cuneate or obovate-cuneate, the blades i.5-3.5 cm 

 long, 7 mm -2 cm wide, or broader on leading shoots, either rounded 

 or with a short abrupt point at the apex, wedge-shaped or more 

 abruptly contracted at the base, the borders glandular, dentate or 

 nearly entire ; they are glabrous or glabrate in age, and when 

 young are more or less pubescent on both surfaces, especially 

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

 green, firm in texture, fading with tones of yellow, orange and 

 brown : petioles $™m__ 2 cm long, winged, glandular, pubescent, at 

 least when young : flowers 1 2-1 j mm wide, opening about the first 

 of April and when the leaves are about half grown ; they are 

 borne in simple, 3-5-flowered corymbs which terminate short 

 leafy branchlets or fascicles of leaves : pedicels and hypanthium 

 tomentose : sepals 3-4 mm long, glandular-serrate or nearly entire, 

 reflexed after anthesis : y stamens 20, the anthers yellow : fruit, 

 which ripens towards the end of August, subglobose, y-g mm thick, 

 red at maturity : nutlets 3-5, 5-6 mm long, the lateral surfaces 

 nearly plane : hypostyle 3-4 mm long. 



Cratcegtis frugalis was originally found April 3, 1901, growing on the 

 banks of the Flint river near Albany, Georgia (type locality). 



