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BILTMORE BOTANICAL STUDIES 



Cratczgus alge?is grows in woods and fields from North Carolina to northern 

 Georgia, Alabama and eastern Tennessee, and near Biltmore, N. C. (type 

 locality), is one of the commonest species of the group. 



The type material is preserved in the Biltmore Herbarium. 



Crataegus pyracanthoides n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5 m tall, the trunk or main stems 

 clothed with ashy-gray or brownish either smooth or scaly bark, 

 the branches often armed with chestnut-brown or gray spines 

 i.5~4 cm long: leaves obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, the blades 

 1.5-5°™ long, 7mm_3cm w [(\e, glabrous, acute or rounded at the 

 apex, cuneate at the base, the margins serrate above the middle ; 

 they are glabrous, or when young bear a few weak hairs along the 

 midrib on the upper surface, bright green and lustrous above, pale 

 green beneath, eventually firm or subcoriaceous in texture, fading 

 with tones of yellow, orange and brown : petioles 2-1 o mm long, 

 margined : flowers, which open early in April and when the 

 leaves are almost fully grown, produced in compound, glabrous, 

 many -flowered corymbs: pedicels and hypanthium glabrous: 

 sepals 2.5-4°™ long, entire or remotely serrate, spreading or 

 reflexed after anthesis : stamens 7-12, the anthers purplish: 

 fruit, which ripens in September, globose or nearly so, 5-8 mm in 

 diameter, bright red at maturity : nutlets mostly 2, 5~6 mm long, 

 the ventral surface nearly plane : hypostyle about half the length 

 of the nutlet. 



Cratcegns pyracanthoides grows on the banks of the Chipola river, near 

 Marianna, Florida (type locality). 



The type specimens {B2ogo, B20Q0 2 and Bioyj) are preserved in the Bilt- 

 more Herbarium. 



Crataegus armata n. sp. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5™ tall, the short trunk or main stems 

 covered with ashy-gray or brownish, scaly bark : branches ascend- 

 ing and spreading, freely armed with stout chestnut-brown or gray 

 spines 3-6 cm long : leaves oblong- or obovate-cuneiform, the blades 

 2_4.cm long, i-2 cm wide, or on leading shoots oval, 2.5-3-5 cm wide, 

 rounded, mucronate or even acute at the apex, wedge-shaped or 

 more abruptly contracted at the base, the margins serrate above 

 the middle or occasionally subentire ; they are glabrous, bright 

 green and lustrous on the upper surface at maturity, pale beneath, 



