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b. Pubescence of the corymbs densely white-woolly. 
Vernal leaves bright green: pedicels at maturity 1 cm. long or more. 
Mature leaf-blades subcoriaceous, conspicuously margined with black 
glands. 
Mature leaf-blades thinner, not very glandular. 
Vernal leaves gray-green: pedicels very short. 
XVII. DENTATAE. 
Fruit red at maturity. 
Corolla 2-2.5 em. broad : sepals 6-8 mm. long. 
Pomes oval, 1.5-2 em. long: anthers yellow. 
Pomes subglobose, 1-1.5 em. thick: anthers pale purple. 
Corolia smaller: sepals shorter. 
Inflorescence densely woolly : leaf-blades contracted at the base. 
Inflorescence pubescent: leaf-blades cuneate. 
Fruit yellow, orange or orange-red, the cheeks often red. 
Pedicels clothed with white spreading hairs: flowers 2-2.5 cm. wide. 
Leaf-blades sharply dentate, mostly pointed. 
Leaf-blades crenate-dentate, mostly obtuse. 
Pedicels white-woolly. 
Anthers very small, less than 1 mm. long. 
Leaf margins very glandular: petioles short. 
Leaf margins slightly glandular: petioles long. 
Anthers larger: flowers 2-2.5 em. broad. 
Nutlets 6-7 mm. long. 
Nutlets 7-9 mm. long. 
XIX. ATTRITAE. 
Spines 1-2 cm. long: leaves very irregularly and coarsely dentate. 
Spines longer: leaves finely serrate-dentate. 
XX. SENTAE. 
Leaf-blades with long cuneate bases. 
Fruit red. 4 
Fruit orange with ruddy cheeks, 
Leaf-blades suborbicular with rounded or abruptly contracted bases. 
XXI. ANISOPHYLLAE. 
Fruit orange, often with flushed cheeks. 
Fruit red or reddish. 
Vernal leaves slightly pubescent or glabrate. 
Leaf-blades subentire. 
Leaf-blades lobed and toothed. 
Vernal leaves scurfy-tomentose. 
Anthers yellow: fruit globose or subglobose. 
Leaf-blades conspicuously lobed, toothed and crisped. 
Leaf-blades subentire or with shallow lobes and teeth. 
Anthers white: fruit subglobose or oval. 
XXII. COLONICAE. 
Leaf-blades entire or nearly so, gland-margined. 
Leaf-blades dentate, glands less conspicuous. 
XXIII. RECURVAE. 
ge A eed (exclusive of those on the shoots) less than 2 em. wide. 
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Fruit yellow, orange or orange red, cheeked or splotched with red. 
Prevailing leaves with the blades abruptly contracted at the base. 
Fruit 8-12 mm. tick : spines mostly 1-2 em. long. 
Leaf-blades conspicuously dentate and glandular. 
Leaf-blades subentire, the glands less conspicuous. 
Blades obovate or suborbicular. 
Blades much more elongated. 
Fruit smaller: spines numerous, 1.5-3.5 cm. long. 
Prevailing leaves with the blades cuneate at the base, or with long- 
winged petioles. 
Leaf-blades acute or very sharply pointed, toothed or lobed. 
Leaf-blades abruptly pointed or obtuse, either toothed, lobed or entire. 
Mature leaves more than 1 em. wide. 
Vernal leaves long, conspicuously DK the flowers. 
Petioles mostly short, never as long as the blades. 
Nutlets 6-7 mm. long. 
Nutlets 7-9 mm. long. 
Petioles mostly elongated, sometimes as long as the blades. 
Flowers large : sepals 4-5 mm. long. 
Flowers small : sepals very small. 
Vernal leaves less than 2 em. long, the petioles white-woolly. 
Mature leaves less than 1 em. wide. 
Some or all of the leaves (exclusive of those on the shoots) 2 em. wide. 
Pubescence of the inflorescence copious but thin. 
Pubescence of the inflorescence densely white-woolly. 
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. C. dapsilis. 
. C. dolosa. 
. C. rava. 
. C. Alabamensis. 
. C. fortis. 
. C. compitalis. 
. C. insidiosa. 
. C. florens. 
. C. clara. 
. C. pulla. 
. C. inops. 
. C. amica. — 
. C. Ravenelii. 
. C. attrita. 
. C. teres. 
. C. senta. ) 
. €. Cullasagensis. 
. C. dispar. 
C. anisophylla. 
C. frugalis. 
C. viaria. 
C. cirrata. 
C. arguta. 
C. laxa. 
C. colonica. 
C. vicana. 
C. recurva. 
. C. rimosa. 
. C. inopina. 
. €. villaris, 
. €. curva. 
. C. resima. 
. C. lassa. 
. C. adusta. 
. C. illudens. 
. C. versuta. 
. €. incana. 
. C. crocea. 
. C. audens. 
. C. meridiana. 
