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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



3_ycm i on g exclusive of the petioles, 2.5-6.5°™ wide, acute or acu- 

 minate at the apex, broadly cuneate, rounded or truncate at the 

 base, the borders serrate and with several pairs of short, acute 

 lobes ; they are glabrous when fully grown, and when young are 

 sparsely covered on the upper surface with short, pale hairs, 

 bright green, firm in texture, fading in autumn with tones of yel- 

 low, orange and brown : petioles i~3 cm long, glabrous : flowers, 

 which open early in May and when the leaves are about two-thirds 

 grown, i4-i7 mm wide, produced in subsimple or compound, gla- 

 brous, 5-15-flowered corymbs, the lower branches of which are 

 axillary: pedicels and hypanthium glabrous: sepals 4-5 mm long, 

 entire or serrate, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 15-20, the 

 anthers purple : fruit, which ripens early in September, subglo- 

 bose, i2-i5 mm thick, at maturity red or pruinose-red, the flesh 

 soft, edible : nutlets 3-5, 7-8 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly 

 plane : hypostyle about 5 mm long. 



Cratczgus basilica grows in woods and clearings and on slopes in the moun- 

 tains of western North Carolina. 



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

 collected near Candler, in Buncombe county, and represent both flowers and 

 fruit from the same tree. 



Crataegus nubicola n. sp. 



A shrub 1-3 111 tall with ashy-gray, scaly bark, the ascending 

 or somewhat spreading branches forming a compact, usually 

 symmetrical outline : leaves ovate, 2~5 cm long exclusive of the 

 petioles, 2~5 cm wide, acute at the apex, rounded or truncate at 

 the base, the borders sharply serrate and with 3-5 pairs of short, 

 acute lobes ; they are glabrous at maturity, bright green, firm 

 in texture, fading with tones of yellow and brown : petioles 

 1-2. 5 cm long ? glabrous : flowers produced in subsimple or com- 

 pound, 5-10-flowered glabrous corymbs, the lower branches of 

 which arise from the axils of leaves : pedicels and hypanthium 

 glabrous : sepals 4-5 mm long, entire or slightly serrate, reflexed 

 after anthesis : stamens normally 20 : fruit, which ripens in Sep- 

 tember, subglobose, 7-9™™ thick, red at maturity : nutlets 3-5, 

 6-7 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle 5-6 mm 

 long. 



