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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



symmetrical head, and branclilets tinged with red and villose, with long matted silky 

 white hairs, when they first appear, soon puberulous, and furnished with stout lustrous 

 spines 2'-3' long. 



Distribution. Hillsides in rich soil iTi the foothill region of the southern Appa- 

 lachian Mountains from soutiiwestern Virginia to central (ieorgia and Avestward to 

 middle Tennessee and central Alabama, ascending to elevations of 2500 above the 

 sea. 



26. Cratcegus amnicola, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate, oval or ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, gradually narrowed 

 and concave-cuneate at the entire base, coarsely sometimes doubly serrate above, 



with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and incisely lobed above the middle, with 

 short acute or acuminate lobes, when they unfold deeply tinged with red and covered 

 with short pale mostly caducous hairs, about half grown and sparingly villose on the 

 midribs and veins when the flowers open late in April or early in May, and at 

 maturity subcoriaceous, bright green, glabrous, l^'-l^ long, X'-l\' wide, and on 

 vigorous shoots sometimes 2' long and 1^' wide, turning in the autumn yellow, orange, 

 red, and brown ; their petioles slender, broadly wing-margined at the apex, spar- 

 ingly villose at first, becoming glabrous, sometimes slightly glandular, \'-^' long. 

 Flo"wers about f in diameter, on elongated slender slightly villose pedicels, in 

 narrow compound many-flowered villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered hairs at the base, the lobes narrow, acuminate, 

 glandular-serrate, glabrous; stamens 20; anthers nearly white; styles 3-5. Fruit 

 on slender elongated glabrous pedicels, in drooping few-fruited clusters, subglobose, 

 dull red, about ^' in diameter; calyx enlarged, with elongated coarsely serrate re- 

 flexed conspicuous lobes; flesh yellow, thin, and firm; nutlets 3-5, rounded or slightly 

 grooved on the back, nearly ^ long. 



A tree, occasionally 25 high, with a trunk 8'-12' in diameter, spreading or ascend- 

 ing branches forming a large wide head, and branchlets villose at first, with long 

 matted white hairs, soon glabrous, becoming orange-brown and ultimately ashy gray, 

 and unarmed, or armed with stout spines l^'-2' long. 



Distribution. Low moist woods and the borders of streams, southeastern Ten- 

 nessee, northwestern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama; common. 



