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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



maturity red, or green and red and often with russet surfaces, the 

 flesh firm : nutlets 3-5, about y mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle occupying about two-thirds of the ventral angle. 



Crataegus callida grows in the flat woods south of Gadsden, Alabama (type 

 locality). 



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

 represent both flowers (B4205) and fruit (Bi^yj) from the same tree. 



Crataegus iracunda n. sp. 



A large shrub or a slender tree 2-5 111 tall, sometimes with a 

 trunk i dm in diameter covered with ashy-gray, either smooth or 

 scaly bark, the ascending or rarely spreading branches freely 

 armed with very stout, chestnut-brown or gray, mostly curved 

 spines, or the latter on the trunk or stems very numerous and com- 

 pound : leaves ovate or deltoid, the blades i.5-6 cm long, i-6 cm 

 wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, truncate, cordate or occa- 

 sionally broadly cuneate at the base, the borders sharply serrate 

 and incised ; they are bright green and scabrous on the upper 

 surface, pale and glabrous beneath, and when young are pubes- 

 cent on the upper surface, smooth on the lower, firm in texture, 

 fading with tones of yellow, red and brown : petioles 7mm__2 cm 

 long, glabrous, glandular : flowers about 15™™ wide, opening 

 about the 20th of April and when the leaves are about one-third 

 grown ; they are disposed in simple, 3-7-flowered corymbs which 

 terminate short, leafy shoots : pedicels and hypanthium glabrous : 

 sepals 3-4 mm long, entire or glandular-serrate, reflexed after anthe- 

 sis : stamens 10, the anthers purple : fruit, which ripens and falls 

 in September, subglobose, 8-io mm thick, at maturity red or red 

 and green, the flesh firm : nutlets 3-5, about 6 mm long, the lateral 

 surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 3-4 mm long. 



Crataegus iracunda is not uncommon in the flat woods near Rome, Georgia 

 (type locality). 



Type specimens, representing flowers {B4171} and fruit (B^iyi 2 ) from the 

 same tree, are preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus vicinalis n. sp. 



A large shrub or small tree 3-6 m tall with a trunk sometimes 

 I dm m diameter, clothed with dark gray or brownish scaly bark, 



