BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



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obovate, elliptic or cuneiform, or on leading shoots sometimes 

 oval, the blades 2~5 cm long, i~3 cm wide, or larger on the shoots, 

 either pointed or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped or more 

 abruptly contracted at the base, the borders serrate above the 

 middle ; they are glabrous or glabrate at maturity and when young 

 are slightly pubescent on both surfaces, bright green and lustrous, 

 either smooth or slightly scabrous in age on the upper surface, 

 paler beneath, eventually subcoriaceous in texture, fading with 

 tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 2-io mm long, mar- 

 gined, pubescent, at least when young : flowers, which open early 

 in May, about 1 5 mm wide, borne in compound, many-flowered, 

 more or less pilose-pubescent corymbs : pedicels and hypanthium 

 pilose or glabrate : sepals 3~4 mm long, entire or sparingly serrate, 

 reflexed or spreading after anthesis : stamens 7-10, the anthers 

 purplish : fruit subglobose, 7~g mm in diameter : nutlets mostly 

 2-3, 6-7 mm long, the lateral surfaces nearly plane : hypostyle about 

 two-thirds as long as the ventral angle. 



Cratcegus torva grows in woods and on hills in Alabama and Georgia, and is 

 rather common near Birmingham, Alabama (type locality). 



The type specimens, representing both flowers {B22jq) and fruit (B8i8) t are 

 deposited in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus denaria n. sp. 



A tree 5~7 m tall with a trunk sometimes 2 dm in diameter, 

 covered with dark gray or brownish scaly bark, the spreading 

 branches, which are often armed with stout spines 2-3. 5 cm long, 

 forming a wide crown : leaves oval, oblong-obovate or elliptic, or 

 on leading shoots broadly oval, ovate or obovate, the blades 

 2.5-6 cm long, i~4 cm wide, mostly pointed at the apex, contracted 

 or narrowed at the base, the borders serrate ; they are glabrous at 

 maturity and when young bear a few pale weak hairs along the 

 base of the midrib on the upper surface, firm to subcoriaceous in 

 texture, bright green and lustrous above, pale beneath, fading 

 with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 5 mm -2 cm long, 

 margined, glabrous or with a few hairs on the upper side, espe- 

 cially when young: flowers i3-i6 mm wide, opening towards the 

 end of April and when the leaves are almost or quite grown ; they 

 are produced in compound, many-flowered, more or less pilose 

 corymbs, the lower branches of which are axillary : pedicels and 



