ROSACEJE 



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long, 1^-2' wide, with thicker midribs and veins. Flowers ^ in diameter, on long 

 slender pedicels, in broad many-flowered glabrous corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, the lobes linear-lanceolate, entire or remotely serrate;, stamens 10; anthers 

 yellow; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening in September or October, on slender stems, 

 in few-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong, |'-^ long, green tinged with red; 

 calyx-lobes slightly enlarged, reflexed and often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh 

 yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 2 or 3, prominently ridged on the back, ^' long, 

 about yY wide. 



A tree, often 20 high, with a tall trunk 8'-12' in diameter, stout ascending or 

 spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical head, and branchlets armed with 

 stout or slender nearly straight spines l^'-2' long. 



Distribution. Low woods, northwestern Georgia and northern Alabama; com- 

 mon in the flat woods near Rome, Georgia. 



-< h Anthers yellow. 



6. Crataegus Arduennae, Sarg. 



Leaves obovate, acute, acuminate or rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed 

 from near the middle to the entire cuueate base, finely crenulate-serrate above, with 



glandular teeth, glabrous and deeply tinged with red as they unfold, nearly fully 

 grown when the flowers open at the end of May or early in June, at maturity sub- 

 coriaceous, dark green and very lustrous above, pale below, ll'-2^' long? and ^-1' 

 wide, with slender yellow midribs and obscure primary veins mostly within the 

 parenchyma; their petioles stout, winged to below the middle, occasionally sparingly 

 glandular, ^'-^' in length; on vigorous shoots mostly elliptical, short-pointed, very 

 coarsely serrate, usually laterally lobed, and often 21' -3' long and l^'-2' wide, with 

 stout midribs and prominent slender primary veins, their stipules foliaceous, lunate, 

 coarsely glandular-serrate, stalked, sometimes |' long. Flowers ^'-f in diam- 

 eter, on long slender pedicels, in broad many-flowered compound glabrous corymbs; 

 calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes abruptly narrowed from the base, linear, 

 acuminate, tipped with small dark red glands, entire or slightly and irregularly ser- 

 rate; stamens 5-12; usually 10; anthers small, pale yellow; styles 1 or 2. Fruit 



