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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



Crattzgus curva is common in sandy soil throughout northeastern Florida, 

 and especially in the vicinity of Jacksonville (type locality). 



The type material, which is deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium, represents 

 flowers (B4082) and fruit (B4082 2 ) from the same tree. 



Crataegus resima n. sp. 



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

 trunk i dm in diameter covered with dark, rough bark, the droop- 

 ing branches, which are frequently armed with stout chestnut- 

 brown or gray spines 1-2. 5 cm long, forming a spreading or wide- 

 spreading crown : leaves cuneate or spatulate, the blades 1-2. 5 cm 

 long, 7mm_ I ^cm w ide, pointed or variously lobed at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, the borders glandular, dentate or irreg- 

 larly notched above the middle ; they are pubescent or glabrate 

 at maturity and when young are pubescent on both surfaces, 

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

 eventually bright green, firm to 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 about 

 I2 mm w ide, expanding about the first of April and when the leaves 

 are one-third to one-half grown ; they are produced in simple, 

 2-5-flowered corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets or 

 fascicles of leaves : pedicels and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 

 3~4 mm long, glandular-serrate : stamens 20, the anthers pale yel- 

 low : fruit, which ripens and falls in August and early in Septem- 

 ber, pyriform, 9-1 i mm thick, at maturity orange-yellow blotched 

 with red, the flesh soft : nutlets mostly 3, about 7 mm long, the 

 lateral surfaces nearly plane: hypostyle 4-5 mm long, i.5-2 mm wide 

 on each lateral surface. 



Cratcegus resima grows in open woods and old fields, mostly in sandy soil at 

 Albany, Georgia (type locality). 



The original specimens, representing flowers {B408Q) and fruit (B4089 2 ) from 

 the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus adusta n. sp. 



A large shrub or small tree 2-5™ tall with a short trunk i-i.5 dm 

 in diameter, clothed with dark gray or brownish rough bark, the 

 slender drooping branches, which are often armed with gray or 

 chestnut-brown spines i-2 cm long, forming an irregular, spreading 



