BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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Crataegus recurva grows in sandy soil at Ocala, Florida (type locality). 

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

 represent flowers (B4007) and fruit (B4007 2 ) from the same tree. 



Crataegus rimosa n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 2-4™ tall with a short, slender 

 trunk sometimes i dm in diameter, clothed with dark gray or 

 brownish-black rimose bark, the slender drooping branches fre- 

 quently armed with stout spines 1-2. 5 cm long : leaves cuneate, 

 spatulate or oblong-cuneiform, the blades 1-2. 5 cm long, 7 mm -2 cm 

 wide or broader on leading shoots, usually abruptly contracted 

 but occasionally wedge-shaped at the base, either rounded, ab- 

 ruptly pointed or lobed at the apex, the borders glandular, dentate 

 above the middle ; they are glabrate or pubescent on the lower 

 surface at maturity, and when young are more or less pubescent 

 on both sides, especially along the midrib and principal veins and 

 in their axils, firm in texture, eventually bright green, fading with 

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

 gined, glandular, pubescent, at least when young : flowers i2-i5 mm 

 wide, opening about the 25th of March and when the leaves are 

 about half grown ; they are solitary or in simple, 2-4-flowered 

 corymbs which terminate short leafy branchlets or fascicles of 

 leaves : pedicels and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 3-4 mm long, 

 glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers 

 light yellow : fruit, which ripens in August, short-pyriform, 

 9-i2 mm thick, at maturity yellow or orange-yellow flushed or 

 cheeked with red, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, 6-7 mm long, the 

 lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 4-5 mm long, 1.5-2™™ wide 

 on each side of the ventral angle. 



Cratcsgus rimosa is abundant in sandy soil at Citra, Florida (type locality). 

 The type specimens, consisting of flowers (B404J) and fruit (B4043 2 ) from 

 the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus inopina n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3-5™ tall, sometimes with a short 

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

 bark, the slender, crooked and recurved branches, which are often 

 armed with spines i-2 cm long, forming a low spreading crown : 

 leaves obovate-cuneiform, sometimes suborbicular, the blades 



