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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



end of March and when the leaves are about half-grown ; they 

 are occasionally solitary but mostly in 2-4-flowered corymbs which 

 terminate short, leafy branchlets or fascicles of leaves : pedicels 

 and hypanthium tomentose : sepals 3-5-5 mm long, glandular-ser- 

 rate, reflexed after anthesis : fruit, which ripens and falls- in 

 August, pyriform, 8-1 i mm thick, yellow at maturity, the flesh 

 soft : nutlets mostly 3, about j mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratcsgus illudens is abundant in the region about Citra, Florida (type 

 locality), growing in sandy soil. 



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

 of flowers {Bjojrf) and fruit (B40JJ 2 ) from the same tree. 



Crataegus versuta n. sp. 



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

 trunks sometimes i-2 dm in diameter, covered with dark, rough 

 bark, the drooping branches, which are frequently armed with 

 spines i-2 cm long, forming a spreading, irregular crown : leaves 

 cuneiform, the blades i-3 cm long, $mm-2 cm wide, or broader on 

 leading shoots, either rounded, pointed or lobed at the apex, 

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

 above the middle ; they are pubescent or tomentose at maturity, 

 at least on the lower surface along the midrib and in the axils of 

 the principal veins, and when young are more or less pubescent 

 on both surfaces, eventually firm in texture, bright green, fading 

 with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles ^m_^cm long, 

 winged, glandular, pubescent: flowers io-i2 mm wide, opening 

 early in April 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 hy- 

 panthium tomentose : sepals 2-3™™ long, glandular, reflexed after 

 anthesis : stamens normally 20, the anthers light yellow : fruit, 

 which ripens and falls in August, short-pyriform, 6-g mm thick, at 

 maturity orange- or greenish-yellow with ruddy cheeks : nutlets 

 3-5, about 6 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 

 3-4 mm long. 



Cratczgus versuta grows in woods and on banks at Albany, Georgia (type 

 locality). 



