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the ascending or slightly spreading branches frequently armed 

 with stout, chestnut-brown or gray spines 2~4 cm long : leaves 

 ovate, 2-5 cm long exclusive of the petioles, i.5~4 cm wide, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, either rounded, truncate or cordate, or 

 sometimes broadly cuneate at the base, the margins serrate and 

 with short, acute lobes ; they are glabrous when fully grown, and 

 at the time of unfolding often bear a few pale hairs near the base 

 of the blades on the upper surface, firm in texture, deep but 

 bright green, fading in autumn with tones of yellow, orange and 

 brown : petioles 7 inm -2 cm long, glabrous : flowers, which open 

 about the first of May and when the leaves are about two-thirds 

 grown, i4-i6 mm wide, disposed in simple, 3-7-flowered corymbs : 

 pedicels and hypanthium glabrous : sepals 2-4 mm long, entire or 

 serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20, the anthers white or 

 cream-color : fruit, which ripens in October, pyriform, 7-9""" 

 thick, 9-1 2 mm long, at maturity red or ruddy, the flesh firm : nut- 

 lets 3-5, 6.5-7.5 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypo- 

 style about 5 mm long. 



Cratcegus vicinalis grows in woods and on slopes from southeastern Ten- 

 nessee to northwestern Georgia. 



The type specimens, which are deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium, were 

 collected at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and represent both flowers {B4240) and 

 fruit {B4240 7 ' &3 ) from the same tree. 



TENUIFOLI^ 



Pomes io-i8 mm thick at maturity, subglobose, oblong 

 or oval 



Stamens normally 20 C. basilica 



Stamens normally 10 C. macros^erma Ashe 56 



Pomes 6-8 mm thick at maturity, subglobose or oval 



Stamens normally 20 C. nubicola 



Stamens fewer C. roanensis Ashe 57 



Crataegus basilica n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 4-7™ tall, sometimes with a trunk i-2 dm 

 in diameter, covered with dark gray or brownish scaly bark, the 

 ascending or slightly spreading branches frequently armed with 

 stout chestnut-brown or gray spines 2-6 cm long : leaves ovate, 



56 Journ. E. Mitchell Soc. l6 2 =73, 1900. 



57 Bull. N. C. College Agric. and M. A. No. 175 : 114, 1900. 



