BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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crown: leaves cuneiform, the blades i. 5~3 cm long, 7 mm -2 cm wide, 

 or larger and obovate-cuneiform on the leading shoots, rounded 

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

 base, the borders glandular, subentire or dentate near the apex; 

 they are glabrate at maturity, and when young are more or less 

 pubescent on both surfaces, especially along the midrib and veins, 

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

 with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 5-i5 mm long, 

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

 i4-i8 mm wide, opening towards the end 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 fasci- 

 cles of leaves: pedicels and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 3-5 mm 

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

 anthers almost white : fruit, which ripens in August, short-pyri- 

 form, 9-1 i mm thick, at maturity orange-red, usually spotted and 

 streaked with red, the flesh soft : nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, the 

 lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 5-6 mm long. 



CratcBgus adusta grows in sandy woods at Gainesville, Florida (type locality). 

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

 represent flowers (B40jg) and fruit (B40jg 2 ) from the same tree. 



Crataegus illudens n. sp. 



A small tree or large shrub 3-6 m tall with one or more stems, 

 sometimes with a short trunk 2-5 dm in diameter, clothed with 

 ashy-gray or brownish-black rough bark, the slender drooping 

 branches, which are often armed with gray or chestnut-brown 

 spines i-2 cm long, forming a spreading or wide-spreading top : 

 leaves cuneiform, the blades i-5-3-5 cm long, 7mm_ 2 cm w ide, or 

 broader on vigorous or leading shoots, either rounded, pointed or 

 lobed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, the borders entire or 

 denticulate, glandular, sometimes lobed above the middle, espe- 

 cially on leading shoots ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity, 

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

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

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

 brown : petioles y^m_.^cm long, winged, glandular, pubescent, at 

 least when young: flowers i4-i8 m,n wide, opening towards the 



