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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



Cratczgus gravida grows on the limestone hills near Nashville, Tennessee 

 (type locality), where several remarkably fine large trees have been noticed. 



The original specimens {H2142 and H2J36) are preserved in the Biltmore 

 Herbarium. 



. Crataegus cibaria n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 3-6™ tall with a trunk sometimes i.5-2 dm 

 in diameter, covered with dark gray, scaly bark, the branches 

 frequently armed with spines 2.5~4 cm long : leaves ovate, broadly 

 ovate or oval, the blades 3-9°™ long, 2-7 cm wide, acute or acu- 

 minate at the apex, rounded or contracted at the base, the 

 margins sharply serrate and incised ; they are glabrous on the 

 upper surface at maturity, pubescent along the midrib and bases 

 of the principal veins beneath and in their axils, and when young 

 are bright green and very sparsely pubescent on the upper sur- 

 face, paler beneath and pubescent along the midrib and veins, 

 or on their bases and in the axils, thin to firm in texture, fading 

 in autumn with tones of yellow and brown : petioles i-4 cm long, 

 pubescent : flowers, which open about the last of April and 

 when the leaves are about two-thirds grown, produced in ample, 

 many-flowered, sparingly-pubescent corymbs, the lower branches 

 of which arise from the axils of leaves : pedicels pubescent : 

 hypanthium glabrous : sepals 5-6 mm long, incised, glandular, 

 reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers light yellow : 

 fruit, which ripens from the middle to the end of August, short- 

 oblong or obovate, io-i4 mm wide, i2-i5 mm long, red at maturity, 

 the flesh soft and edible : nutlets 3-5, about 8 mm long, 4-5 mm 

 measured dorso - ventrally, the lateral surfaces nearly plane: 

 hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratczgus cibaria is common on the hills near Nashville, Tennessee (type 

 locality) . 



The original specimens, representing flowers (H2131) and fruit {H2721 and 

 H1270) from the same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



BILTMOREAN^ 



Stamens normally 10 : fruit yellow or orange, often 



cheeked red 



Stamens normally 20 : fruit red or ruddy 



C. biltmoreana Beadle 5 * 

 C. craytoni 



5 4 Bot. Gaz. 28 : 406, 1899. 



