CRATAEGUS IN MISSOURI, 111 



COCCINEAE. 



Leaves fhombic to oblong-obovate, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, 



dark green and lustrous above; petioles long; flowers 1.5-1.8 cm. in 

 diameter, in many- flowered hairy corymbs; stamens 20; anthers pale 

 yellow; fruit short-oblong to subglobose, dull red, 1.2-1.4 cm, in diameter; 

 nutlets 2 or 3, rounded at the apex, acute at the base- 



1. Crataegus Margaretta Ashe, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. 



Soc. xvi. pt. ii. 72 (1900). — Sargent, Silva N. Am. xiii. 

 137, t. 685; Manual, 461, f. 377. 



Webster and Bertold, St. Louis County; Springfield, 

 Greene County; also in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Ontario, 



and middle Tennessee, 



INTRICATAE. 



Leaves cuneate at the base; petioles long, usually slender; flowers 1.6-2.5 



cm. in diameter, in few-flowered corymbs; fruit subglobose to short- 

 oblong, 1-1.5 cm. long; flesh dry and hard; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the 

 ends, usually conspicuously ridged on the back. 



Stamens 10; glabrous with the exception of occasional hairs on the 

 young leaves and calyx-lobes. 



Anthers rose color; calyx-lobes glabroxig; fruit orange-red; 



leaves ovate to rhombic. 



1. C, Neo-BtLshii, 



Anthers yellow, faintly tinged with rose; calyx-lobes sparingly 

 villose on the inner surface; fruit green slightly flushed with 

 red; leaves ovate to oval. 2. C padifolia. 



Stamens 5-10. 



Anthers yellow slightly tinged with rose; flowers 1.6-1,8 cm. 

 in diameter, in densely villose corymbs; calyx-lobes villose ; 

 fruit orange-yellow, hairy at the ends; leaves blue-green, 



ecabrate. 



3. C. villicarpa. 



Anthers yellow; flowers 2-2.5 cm, in diameter, in glabrous 



corymbs; calyx-lobes glabrous; fruit green flushed with red, 



glabrous; leaves yellow-green, smooth. 



4. C leioclada. 



1. Crataegus Neo-Bushii Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, ii. 



9, t. 105 (1907). 



Dry gravelly soil near Monteer, Shannon County, B. F. 



Bush, (Nos^ 10 A, 10 B type) May and October 1905. 



