634 MALACEAE 
4. M. platycarpa Rehder. 'Tree sometimes 6 m. tall, the trunk up to 1.5 dm. 
in diameter, the branches o g, i branchlets Bate or purple-brown, 
j j val, 4-8 
becoming grayish: rae blades ovate long, yellowish-green, 
abruptly pointed at t Ps ond i d a base, doubly serrate: pe na 
flowered: eT. 9-6 long: flowers fragrant: corolla pin 
broad: pome 3-4 n dia meter, idi yellow. — Woods and aie 
Blue Ridge. and T no rthern provinces, and 8.— 
redolens Ashe, from N Ga. - C. 5 E said to diffe fion this species in 
the narrower leaf- blades a "mallet fruit 
3 dm 
diameter, the o branches forming a pyramida al head, Eo branchlets 
reddish-brown, and ultimately gray-brown: pg bougie ovate-lan 
olate or elliptie- pude 3.5-8 cm. long, a or short-acuminate at ü n 
apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, doubly prie cymes 3—6-flowered: 
pedicels. "2.5-3.5 m long: dr white or pink, 3-3.5 em. bro a pome 
qure 5 em. in diameter, green.— Woods and Gc various provinces, N. C. 
o Mo. and Pa.—M. Paral ee Ashe, N. C. to Ky., aid to differ on this 
ege in the oblong, crenate-serrate leaf- blades. 
: M. angustifolia (Ait.) Michx. Tree sometimes 9 m. e the trunk 3 dm 
n diameter, the branches rigid (or pendulous in M. angustifolia pendula), 
the brane hlets oe pent ea and S rou leaf-blades elliptic to lance- 
olate or elliptic-ov . long, thick, dark-green above, crenate-serrate, 
rather rd or leans Ri the e rounde d or cuneate at the base: cymes 
3—5-flow ded pedie d 2-3 cm. long, slender: aac fragrant: corolla pink, 
om abo 2.5 broad: ` pome about 2.5-3.5 em. in DPA yellow-. 
gre thickets and edges of woods, various provinces, W Fla. to La., Ill, 
mud "Ya. 
M. bracteata Rehder. Tree up m. tall, the trunk 1-1.5 dm. 
dn. the branches stout, spreadi ur s a bro ad head, the branchlets 
becoming red-brown, gla abrous or som ewhat persistently pubescent: leaf-blades 
ovate to elliptie-ovate, 3.5-7.5 em. long, thin, yellowish-green above, serrate or 
somewhat rate obtuse or acutish at the apex, mostly ae at t base: 
cymes 3- n zx red: pedicel els 1.5-2.5 em. long: flowers fragran a pink, 
mostly 2 roa pome 2. 5-3.5 cm. in diameter, ie a pe ig 
Woods eg URN -banks, various provinces, M Fla. to Mo. and N. C. 
8. M. a lus (L.) Britton. Tree ps spreading branches, the trunk some- 
times rea ien a diameter of 1 m cultivation: leaf-blades petioled, broadly 
ovate or oval, 2.5-7.5 em. long, obt fase or Ad ly eas at the apex, rounded 
m slightly cordate at the base, dentate early entire, glabrous or nearly so 
above, pubescent and often woolly Dono d espeeially "when young; pedicels 
generally tomentose, 2.5-5 em. long: corolla pink or white, 3.5-7.5 em. piis 
7. 
pome depressed-globose or re hollowed at the base e; ap 5 in 
n cd fields, thicket i — fen cud ows, M provinces, Ga. is Mo. 
and Ont. Nat. of Eurasia common apple, in is "varieties, of 
commas frequently escapes n m tion. 
4. ARONIA Pers. Leaf-blades simple, shallowly toothed. Cyme com- 
pound. Corolla mainly white. Pome Laici ze globular to pyriform. — Fol 
lowing are the only known species.—Spr. Plants are occa- 
sionally grown as ornamentals. 
Fruit broadly pyriform, bright-re 1. A. bound ia. 
Fruit oval or globose, purple-bl es 2. A. atropurpurea. 
purple. . A. melanocarpa. 
