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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



COLONICS 



Leaves entire or nearly so, gland-margined 

 Leaves dentate, glands less conspicuous . . 



C. colonica 

 C. vzcana 



Crataegus colonica n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3-6 m tall with a short trunk some- 

 times 2-3 dm in diameter, covered with ashy-gray, rough or rimose 

 bark, the drooping branches frequently armed with chestnut- 

 brown or gray spines i-3 cm long : leaves cuneate or obovate-cunei- 

 form, the blades i~3 cm long, 7 mm -3.5 cm wide, rounded or abruptly 

 pointed at the apex, narrowed or contracted at the base, the bor- 

 ders glandular, usually dentate or shallowly lobed above the mid- 

 dle ; they are glabrate in age, or pubescent on the lower surface, 

 and especially along the midrib and in the axils of the prominent 

 veins, bright or yellow-green, subcoriaceous in texture, fading 

 with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 5 mm -2 cm long, 

 winged, glandular, pubescent, at least when young : flowers, 

 which open during the last of April or early in May, produced in 

 simple, mostly 2-4-flowered corymbs : pedicels and hypanthium 

 tomentose : sepals 3-4. 5 mm long, serrate, glandular, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens normally 20 : fruit, which ripens and falls late 

 in August or early in September, pyriform, io-i3 mm thick, i.5-2 cm 

 long, orange-red at maturity, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, about 

 8mm long, the lateral surfaces' nearly plane : hypostyle about 5 mm 

 long. 



Cratcegus colonica was apparently first collected by Dr. J. H. Mellichamp 

 on the bluffs of May river, near Bluffton, Beaufort county, South Carolina (type 

 locality), where the species is not uncommon. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus vicana n. sp. 



A large shrub or small tree 2-4 m tall with a short trunk some- 

 times i.5~2 dm in diameter, covered with ashy-gray or brownish, 

 rough or rimose bark, the drooping branches, which are fre- 

 quently armed with stout spines 1.5-3. 5 cm long, forming a wide- 

 spreading crown : leaves cuneate or oblong- or obovate-cuneiform, 

 the blades 1.5-3. 5 cm l° n g> 7 mm -2 cra wide, or on leading shoots 

 sometimes 4-5 cm wide, either pointed or rounded or occasionally 

 truncate at the apex, narrowed or contracted at the base, the mar- 



