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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



i.5-2.5 cm long, i-2 cm wide, or larger on leading shoots, usually 

 abruptly contracted but occasionally wedge-shaped at the base, 

 either rounded, pointed or lobed at the apex, the borders entire 

 or denticulate ; they are glabrate at maturity or with some pubes- 

 cence on the lower surface and in the axils of the large veins, and 

 when young are more or less pubescent on both surfaces, eventu- 

 ally bright green, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, fading in 

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

 long, margined, glandular, pubescent or scurfy-tomentose : flow- 

 ers i2-i5 mm wide, opening about the 20th 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. 5 mm long, glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthesis, stamens 

 20, the anthers light yellow or almost white : fruit, which ripens 

 in August, pyriform, 8-n mm thick, 1 2-1 4 mm long, at maturity yel- 

 low or orange-yellow, sometimes cheeked with red, the flesh soft : 

 nutlets 3-5, 6-7 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypo- 

 style 4-5 mm long. 



Cratczgus inopina is common in sandy soil at Ocala, Florida (type locality). 

 The original specimens, representing flowers (B4001) and fruit {B^ooi' 2 ) from 

 the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium 



Crataegus villaris n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3~5 m tall with one or more stems, 

 sometimes with a short trunk i-i.5 dm in diameter covered with 

 dark, rough or rimose bark, the zigzag drooping branches, which 

 are frequently armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines i-2 cm 

 long, forming an irregular, spreading crown : leaves cuneate or 

 oblong-cuneiform, the blades i-5-3-5 cm long, 5mm_ 2 cm wide, or 

 broader on leading shoots, usually abruptly contracted but occa- 

 sionally wedge-shaped at the base, rounded or abruptly pointed 

 at the apex, the borders glandular, entire or nearly so ; they are 

 glabrous or glabrate at maturity, and when young are more or 

 less pubescent on both surfaces, especially on the lower surface 

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

 or yellow-green, firm to subcoriaceous in texture, fading with 

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



