BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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

 consist of flowers {B4091) and fruit {B4091 2 ) from the same tree. 



Crataegus incana n. sp. 



A large shrub 2-4™ tall with one or more stems covered with 

 dark gray or brownish, rough or scaly bark, the crooked, recurved 

 branches sometimes armed with short, gray or chestnut-brown 

 spines : leaves cuneate, or obovate-cuneate, the blades 1-2. 5 cm long, 

 7 mm -2 cm wide, abruptly pointed or rounded at the apex, wedge- 

 shaped or more abruptly contracted at the base, the margins gland- 

 ular, subentire or shallowly lobed ; they are pubescent 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-i5 mm long, margined, densely 

 white-tomentose when young, glandular : flowers about i5 mm wide, 

 opening towards the end of March and when the leaves barely 

 overreach the flowers, they are solitary or in simple, 2-4-flowered 

 corymbs which terminate short, leafy branchlets or fascicles of 

 leaves: pedicels and hypanthium densely white-tomentose: sepals 

 4_5 mm long, glandular, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, the 

 anthers nearly white : fruit, which ripens in August, pyriform, 

 8-9 mm thick, at maturity orange-yellow flushed or cheeked with 

 red : nutlets 3-5, about j mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : 

 hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratczgus incana grows in sandy oak woods at Bristol, Florida (type 

 locality). 



The original specimens, representing flowers {H4020) and fruit (H4Q1S) from 

 the same shrub, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus crocea n. sp. 



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

 clothed with dark, rough bark, the slender, drooping branches 

 frequently armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines 1-2. 5 cm 

 long: leaves cuneiform, the blades 1-2. 5 cm long, 5-1 5 mm wide, or 

 broader on leading shoots, either pointed or rounded at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, the borders glandular, denticulate above 

 the middle ; they are smooth on the upper surface at maturity, 



