126 * MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDE?!. 



fruited 



clusters, subglobose to sliort-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small 

 pale dots, 8-9 mm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a narrow 

 shallow cavity and spreading often deciduous lobes; flesh thin, yelk»w, 

 sweet and succulent; nutlets 2, rounded at the ends, slightly ridged on tlie 

 back, penetrated on the inner faces by deep narrow cavities, about 6 mm. 

 long, and 2.5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 2-6 m. high, with slender stems covered with gray 

 scaly bark, spreading branches, and stout slightly zigzag 

 branchlets dark reddish brown marked by pale lenticels and 

 sparingly villosc when they first appear, becoming light 

 chestnut-brown, glabrous and very lustrous in their first 

 season and pale gray-brown the following year, and armed with 

 numerous stout or slender nearly straight purple shining 



spines 3-6 cm. long. 



Rocky barrens, Jackson County; widely distributed but 

 not common, B. F. Busily Grain Valley, Dodson, Independ- 

 ence. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



ADDENDUM.* 



2. Crataegus apiifolia Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 287. 



(1803). — Chapman, Fl. 127.— Sargent, Silva N.Am, 

 iv. Ill, t. 188; Manual, 486, f. 401. 



Neclyville, Butler County, B. F. Bush (No. 47), April 22, 

 1898 ; also from Arkansas, eastern Texas, and to Florida and 

 southern Vii'ghiia. 



* p. 114, under microcarpae. 



