640 MALACEAE 
XIV. MICROCARPAE - 
Leaf-blades membranous, mostly lobed: corymbs few- to many-flowered: fruit 
small, usually red. 
Leaf-blades of the vegetative shoots only, lobed, the lower 
spatulate: styles and nutlets 3—5. 29. C. spathulata. 
Leaf blades deeply lobed or eut: styles and nutlets 1—3. 30. C. Marshallii, 
V. PA ind OLIAE | 
Leaf-blades usually small, subcoriaceous, cuneate to obovate, toothed or shal- 
lowly lobed: corymbs few- flowered : fruit abase to pyriform, yellow to red. 
Inflorescenee pubescent to tomentose, 2 C. uniflora. 
Inflorescence glabrous, . C. lacrimata, 
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Leaf-blades often "—— QÜÁ i ie pet about 12 mm. long: corymbs 
Aes ed: fruit small, scarlet : nutlets bare at apex. 33. C. Phaenopyrum. 
1. C. Crus-galli L. A tree up to 9 m. tall, with a trunk 3—4 dm. in diameter, 
covered ps Sur -gray pi brownish scaly bark; leaf-blades obovate or ob- 
cm. broad, 
lanceolate, 2 . long, 1-3 
larger on pes shoots, glabrous, obtuse o or 
ed -wh ts 
—Woods, thickets, und ricas WS, acus 
sam eia N Fla. to E Kans. ^ Ont., and Que. 
2. C. Mohrii Beadle. A tree sometimes 10 
m. tall (rarely a shrub), with dark-gray or 
cuneiform to elliptic, or on ! ts 
arying to orbicular, 2—5 em. long, glabrous 
in age te to near the base: 2-— 
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mm. long, entire or gla uda serrate: corolla about 15 mm. broad: fruit glo- 
bose, red or green ptis E 3 to 5.—Fields and low TY Coastal Plain 
and adj. provinees, NW da. o La. and Tenn 
3. C. berberifolia T. & G. tree often attaining a height of 8 m., with dark- 
gray sealy s lif blades oblong-cuneiform or spatulate to obovate-cunei- 
form, 2-6 em. long, smooth or scabrous, pale, or sometimes pubescent beneath, 
ic sd abode ne middle: a als 3-5 mm. long, serrate or entire: corolla 10—15 
mm. broad: fruit globose or nearly so, yellow-orange or red: nutlets 2 or 3.— 
Low woods and hillsides, Coastal Plain, La. 
4. C. signata Beadle. A tree sometimes 7 m. tall, with a trunk 2 dm. i 
ameter or more, covered with ashy-gray or brownish sea aly bark: teat blades 
oval to obovate-cuneiform, 2— ng, ; ded or mostly 
point t , serrate or frequently incised-serrate: se m 
ong, entire or glandular-serrate: corolla 13-16 m road: fruit oblong to 
— m. b 
globose, about 9 mm. thick, mostly red at maturity, more or less pruinose: 
nutlets 3-5 ce moist copses, and dry slopes, various provinces, 
Ala nd 
. to Tex. and Tenn 
5. C. geris Jacq. A tree sometimes 9 m. tall, with dark-gray or reddish- 
brown scaly bark: leaf-blades obovate to oblong, 3-7 cm. long, cuneate or 
nal contracted at base, irregularly m ' doubly serrate or incised, 
glabrous in age: sepals 5— . long, lin ardanceolate, mi nt: corolla 
about 2 cm. broad: fruit subglobose or oval, 1 to 2 em. lon or yellow: 
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nutlets 2 or 3.—Hillsides and in rocky soil, Blue Ridge and adj. provinces N. C. 
Que 
and Tenn., and more northern provinces to Ia., Minn., and 
