| Type Specimens Of Crategus Spp. L., Hawthorns, Discovered From 1882-1900 In Floyd County, Northwest Georgia, Southeastern United States By: Chauncey D. Beadle (1866-1950), Charles L. Boynton (1864-1943), Alvan W. Chapman (1809-1899), And Charles S. Sargent (1841-1927)
Image: Charles Sprague Sargent, a dendrologist, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard, and author of “Manual Of The Trees Of North America (Exclusive of Mexico)” in 1907 photograph.
Charles Sprague Sargent (1907) photograph by A.G. Eldredge, courtesy of Arnold Arboretum Archives, Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston, Massachusetts. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Arnold Arboretum Archives.
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In flatwoods and on slops of the sandy hills in Floyd County in Georgia the new hawthorn species where discovered and collected by Chauncey D. Beadle and Charles L. Boynton, botanists from the Biltmore Herbarium in Asheville, North Carolina, Alvan W. Chapman, a botanist from Apalachicola, Florida, and Charles S. Sargent, founder and Director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. Those type specimens were: Those specimens and some later collections have been deposited at the Herbariums of:
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, (AUA), Auburn, Aabama,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, (A, GH), Cambridge, Massachusetts,
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, Missouri,
St. Louis, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA,UNC (NCU), Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, (NY), New York, New York, and
UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM, (US), Washington, D.C.
Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn,
Crataegus irancuda Beadle, Stolonbearing Hawthorn,
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn ,
Crataegus tristis Beadle, Minute Hawthorn,
Crataegus sororia Beadle,
Crataegus collina Chapman (apom. segregate of Crataegus punctata Jacq., Dotted Hawthorn),
Crataegus georgiana Sargent (apom. segregate of Crataegus pruinosa (wendl.f.) K.Koch, Waxyfruit Hawthorn),
Crataegus macra Beadle (apomictic segregate of Crataegus crus-galli L. Cockspur-Hawthorn),
Crataegus mohri Beadle (apom. segregate of Crataegus crus-galli L., Cockspur-Thorn),
and
Crataegus regalis Beadle (apomictic segregate of Crataegus crus-galli L., Cockspur-Thorn) .
SPECIMENS:
LOCATION:
DATE:
COLLECTOR/SPEC. ID/TYPE STATUS:
HERB. BARCODE :
Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn, flower; fruit
Horseleg Creek, Rome
17 April 1901; 30 August 1901.
Biltmore Herbarium/ B4148/?Type; B4148/2/?Type
NY 418650;
NY 418649
Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn, fruit
Rome, Floyd County
23 September 1902.
Biltmore Herbarium/ B7149=4148/3/?Type
NY 418648
Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn
Rome, Floyd County
ex Herb.Biltmore/B4148/Syntype
US 00097555
Crataegus aemula Beadle, Rome Hawthorn, flower
Rome, Floyd County
Biltmore Herbarium/B4148/Syntype; B4148/2/Syntype
HUH/(A) A18155
HUH/ (A) 18156
Crataegus irancuda Beadle, Stolonbearing Hawthorn, flower
Flat woods, Rome
23 April 1901.
W. W. Eggleston/B4171/Type; B4171/2/Type
NY 435912
NY 435911
Crataegus iracunda Beadle, Stolonbearing Hawthorn
Rome, Floyd County
1902
ex Herb.Biltmore/ B4171/2/Syntype
US 00097075
Crataegus iracunda Beadle, Stolonbearing Hawthorn, fruit
Rome, Floyd County
20 September 1902.
Biltmore Herbarium/B7139/?Type
HUH/(A) 17990
Crataegus triflora Chapman, Three- flowered Hawthorn
Floyd Co., Georgia
A.W.Chapman/possible Isotype
AUA 423
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn
Rome, Floyd County
Chapman, Alvan W./847/?Type
US 00479499
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn,
Banks of the Coosa River
May 5, 1899.
William M. Canby/n.s/Topotype
NCU 576355
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn
Cliffs of the Coosa River
May 6, 1899.
unknown/9134C/Topotype
NCU 576358
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn
Cliffs of the Coosa River
unknown
Thomas G. Harbison/ 46(?)/Topotype
NCU 83596
Crataegus triflora Chapm., Three-Flower Hawthorn
Black's Bluff of the Coosa River, edge of the dry stream bed
October 1990
Ron Lance/n.s./Topotype
NCU 558659
Crataegus tristis Beadle, Minute Hawthorn
Rome, Floyd County
April 1901; August 1901
ex Herb.Biltmore/B4149/Synotype; /4149/2/Synotype
US 00097818;
US 00097819
Crataegus tristis Beadle, Minute Hawthorn
Rome
October 3, 1908.
Willard W. Eggleston/4218/Topotype
NCU 576357
| SPECIMENS: | LOCATION: | DATE: | COLLECTOR/SPEC. ID/TYPE STATUS: | HERB. BARCODE :
| Crataegus sororia Beadle
| Hills above Silver Creek, Rome
| 18 September 1899.
| C.D. Beadle/B1257/Co-type
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MO 01827619
| Crataegus sororia Beadle, fruit
| Rome, Floyd County
| 18 September 1897
| C.D.Beadle/B1257/Type
| HUH (A) 16234
| Crataegus sororia Beadle, fruit
| Rome, Floyd County
| 18 September 1899
| Biltimore Herbarium
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HUH (GH) 23492 and HUH (A)16233
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Last updated on January 15, 2010.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: REFERENCES:
This work was possible with the help of Carol A. McCormick, Assistant Curator for University of North Carolina Herbarium who provided me in 2004 with the NCU Herbarium's data for Floyd County, Georgia.
Lisa E. Pearson, Library Assistant at Arnold Arboretum Library, Harvard University donated scan of Charles S. Sargent’s photograph in 2009.
1. Arnold Arboretum Library, Harvard University, 125 Arborway, Boston, Massachusetts (http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/library.html)
2. Auburn University Herbarium ( http://www.auburn.edu/herbarium/), Department of Biological Sciences Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849
3. Harvard University Herbaria (http://www.huh.harvard.edu/ ).
4. University of North Carolina Herbarium: (http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/).
University of North Carolina Herbarium, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
5. The New York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Types Catalog: (http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/vasc/ ). New York Botanical Garden,
200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458
6. Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST: (http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html). Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63110
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and
Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.20560
9. Photograph by A.G. Eldredge (1907.)
10. USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS National Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
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