MALACEAE 633 
3. MALUS Mill. Leaf-blades simple, toothed or lobed. Cymes simple. 
Corolla pink or white. Pome depressed at both ends — 15 na: 
natives of north temperate regions.—Spr.—APPLES. CRAB-APPLES.—Sometim 
planted for ornament. The aio is used for tool-handles oer oiner mni 
objects. The fruits are used for preserves. 
Leaves glabrous, at least when mature 
Blades of the yid e flowering branches acute or acuminate. 
Flowering bran earing leaves with lobed or incisely serrate blades; 
leaves of ons shoots with prominently lobed blades 
Leaf-blades rounded o pore at the base, with the inne pair of veins 
ue of the BUE. Tave glaucescent beneath, 
thickis 5 M. glaucescens. 
Bla des of the mature leaves green beneath, thin. - . M. coronaria. 
Leaf blades subeordate at the base, with the lowest 
pair of ee at a base of the blade. 3. M. glabrata. 
Flowering pran hes bearing leaves with serrate blades ; 
lea Me of. vigor TOUS. shoots "with shallowly lobed 
E 
M of an ovate or oval type: pome much de- 
esse 
platycarpa. 
lancifolia. 
4. M. 
PE = a ge pater type: pome subglobose. 5. M. 
6. M. angustifolia. 
7 M. 
8. M. 
Er d the leaves on flowering branches obtuse or merely 
acutis 
Leaves So pranm y pubescent beneath. 
lades obtuse or acute at the base: sepals glabrous. 
Pe E 
Leaf-blades rounded or cordate at the base: sepals pubescent. 
Mal 
: pen A arég idi Rehder. Tree up to 45 m ] with a trunk less than 
in diameter, or frequently a gregarious pos the branches stiff, 
terni E ing an irregular head, 
Legen: ts red-br i ay-brown: 
ea 
ed, 2.5—5 em. br ad 
pome 3-3.5 em. in diameter, greenish-yellow, 
fragrant — Open woods and thickets, various 
provinces, Als. to Ohio and Ont. 
2. M. coronaria (L.) Mill. Tree, some- 
times reaching a height of 9 m. the trunk 
m. in diameter, ud stout spreadi 
anches forming a wide head, uu branehlets becoming red-brown: leaf- blades 
ate to oval, 5—7.5 em. greeter arply sérrate and a somewhat lobed, acute 
or acutish at the apex, rounded or truncate at the base: es 3—6-flowered : 
flowers very i dar D d ice - 3.5-5 em. long, glabrous: UTE deep- pink 3—4 
cm. broad: pom in diameter, greenish-yellow, fragran [M. 
coronaria T Hebdo. ]- —Phickets and woods, various provinees, N. C. to 
Mo. and Ont. 
3. M. glabrata Rehder. Tree up to 8 m. tall, the trunk 2-3 dm. in diameter, 
the branches spreading into a round head, the branchlets becoming purple- 
brown or red- d or ultimately gra ayish: leaf-blades abus ovate or tri- 
angular-ovate, 4—8 em. long, yellowish- Lid acute or short-acuminate at the 
apex, subcordate at d he base, serrate and s hallowly ioc obed: eymes 4—7 
flowered: pedicels 2-3 em. long: flowers fragrant corolla pink, 2.5-3 em. 
jo pome 3-3.5 em. in diameter —Woods in valleys, Blue Ridge, N. C 
