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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



io-i5 mm wide, opening about the ioth of May and when the 

 leaves are almost fully grown ; they are solitary or in twos and 

 threes and terminate short, leafy branchlets : pedicels and hy- 

 panthium densely hirsute-tomentose : sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 5-7 mm long, serrate, glandular, rerlexed after anthesis : stamens 

 20, the anthers pale yellow or nearly white : fruit, which ripens 

 in October, globose, about i cm in diameter, red at maturity : 

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

 hypostyle 4~5 mm long. 



Cratczgus armentalis grows in shallow soil in the rocky glades of Marshall 

 county, Alabama, near Albertville (type locality). 



The type specimens {H4378 and H3281) are preserved in the Biltmore 

 Herbarium. 



Crataegus gregalis n. sp. 



A shrub 1-3™ tall, usually with several stems, the branches 

 armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines 2-5 cm long : leaves 

 prevailingly obovate or oblong-cuneiform, the blades i-5-3-5 cm 

 long, 7 mm -2 cm wide, or broader on leading shoots, mostly rounded, 

 but occasionally pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 the borders crenate or bluntly serrate ; they are pubescent and 

 pale on the lower surface at maturity, especially on the midrib 

 and principal veins, bright green and lustrous above, and when 

 young are gray-green and coated with pale, soft hairs, eventually 

 coriaceous in texture, fading in autumn with tones of yellow and 

 brown : petioles very short, pubescent : flowers about 15mm w ide, 

 opening about the 20th of May and when the leaves are almost 

 fully grown ; they are solitary or in twos and threes and termi- 

 nate short, leafy branchlets : pedicels and hypanthium densely 

 hirsute-pubescent : sepals 5-6 mm long, incised, reflexed after an- 

 thesis : fruit, which ripens in October, pyriform, io-i4 mm thick, 

 i2-i6 mm long, at maturity red or ruddy : nutlets 3-5, about y mm 

 long, the lateral surfaces almost plane : hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratcegus gregalis is common on the sandy flats of the French Broad 

 river near Biltmore, North Carolina (type locality). At least part of the distri- 

 bution of the Biltmore Herbarium sent out under number i27o b , September 17, 

 1897, is of this species. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



