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. Ridge and adj. provinces, Ga., Ala., Tenn., and N. C. ~ Mead LS ogee 
to Kans., Ont, and Ne wf. —The leaf-blades are glabrous from t rst o 
merely with few silky hairs when young. The fruits are ace and modb 
flavored. 
6. ee sanguinea (Pursh) DC. Shrub with arching or straggling branches Mi 
t m. tall, not stoloniferous: leaf-blades oval, varying t 
rarely to DP or suborbieular on shoots, 2.5—6 em. ong; ned o: P acutish 
the apex, ed Sarin cd serrate nearly or quite to the base, rounded 
or subcordate at the base, slender—but often rather des -petioled: panicles 
drooping, 4—7 cm. long, es oo sepals lanceolate or narrowly tri- 
angular- eugene about mm. long: petals linear or narrowly spatulate, 
10-15 mm. long: pome nearly <a beneath the glaucous coat. [A. rotundi- 
folia (Fl. SE. U. S.)]—Rocky banks, woods, and bluffs, Blue on and adj. 
provinces, Ga., Ala., and Tenn. and y ous ir ces, to Minn., Ont. and Que 
The leaf-blades are densely yellowish-tomentose beneath when young, sometim mes 
retaining 8 f the pubescence to S The fruits are juicy, sweet, 
and agreeably flavored. 
6. CRATAEGUS L.1 Small trees or ee usuall armed with thorns 
or spines. Leaves alternate: blades simple, petioled. Flowers terminal, cymose 
or corymbose. Hypanthium cup-shaped or campanulate, adnate to the carpels. 
Sepals 5, reflexed after anthesis. Corolla white or pink. Petals i To 
inserted on the margin of the disk in the throat of the hypanthiu 
5-25, inserted in 1-3 rows on the edge of the hypanthium: flame: nis Sonde 
ineurved: anthers oblong or subglobose, white, pink, or purple. Ovary in- 
i ith its s mud 
ferio ed of 
pera conte stigmas terminal. Fruit globose, pyriform, or oval, yellow, orange- 
red, blue, or black, pica 1-5 bony earpels, eaeh usually l-seede 
erect, the testa membranous.—The plants bloom in spring. Mn. OG- 
lished about that time. For many species not accounted for i n this Mahua ] 
see Flora of the Southeastern United P pages 532—569. 
Leaf-blades not E OTIO TOTAR iE cone often slightly cordate. 
eaf-blades noe "des ply cut: 
Leaf-blades cuneate or abruptly contracted at 
as oo at the middle or towards 
Leaf-blades prevailingly broadest towards 
ex, or varying to orbicular on 
the came plan 
Forum usually compound, many-flow- 
Yentbladés not impressed-veined, 
usually shining. I. CRUS-GALLI. 
Leaf-blades with impressed veins 
above, dull. II. PUNCTATAE. 
Corymbs simple, few-flowered. 
Pedicels and hypanthinm glabrous: 
petioles and leaves usually not 
landular. III. AESTIVALES. 
Pedicels, or at least pne glan- 
E s petioles leaf-margi 
IX. FLAVAE. 
Leaf-blades prevailingly broadest at the mid- 
le, varying to obovate or ovate on 
the same plan 
Leaf-blades impressed-veined. IV. MACRACANTHAE. 
1 Contributed by Ivar Tidestrom. 
