ROSACEA 



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Leaves oblong'-ovate to semiorbicular, acute, often sliort-pointed or rarely rounded 

 at the apex, subcoriaeeous ; fruit short-oblong to obovate or globose, dull orange 

 color. 38. C. glabriuscula (C) 



Leaves oval to rhomboidal, acute or acuminate ; fruit subglobose to short-oblong 

 bright orange-red. 39. C. blanda (C). 



Fruit i'-f ' in diameter. 



Leaves lanceolate to oblong-obovate, acuminate ; fruit short-oblong, dull brick red 

 covered with a glaucous bloom. 40. C. nitida (A). 



Leaves obovate to oval or rhomboidal, acute or rarely rounded at the apex ; fruit 

 subglobose to short-oblong, dark crimson. 41. C. mitis (A). 



Leaves ovate, acute, usually broad and rounded at the base ; fruit subglobose to short- 

 oblong, dark red. ^ 42. C. atrorubens (A). 

 Anthers purple or rose color. 



Leaves obovate, oval or ovate, acute ; fruit globose to subglobose, red ; anthers bright 

 purple. 43. C. ingens (C). 



Leaves broadly obovate, oval or ovate, acute or acuminate ; fruit globose or depressed- 

 globose ; anthers pale rose color. 44. C. penita (C.) 

 Stamens usually 10, occasionally 12-20 ; anthers bright red ; leaves oblong-obovate to 

 oval, usually acute or acuminate j f ryit subglobose to short-oblong, bright orange-red. 



45. C. micracantha (C). 



*Stamens 20. 



-^Anthers pale yellow. 



35. Crataegus viridis, L. 



Leaves ovate to oblong-obovate, acute or acuminate or sometimes rounded at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed to the cuneate wedge-shaped base, finely serrate above, 

 with incurved glandular teeth, and sometimes 3-lobed toward the apex, especially on 

 vigorous shoots, tinged with red and slightly hairy above when they unfold, nearly 

 fully grown when the flowers open, and at maturity membranaceous to subcoriaeeous, 

 dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, with large 



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axillary tufts of pale hairs, l'-3' long, \'-'^\' wide, with thick midribs and conspicu- 

 ous primary veins ; often turning brilliant scarlet late in the autumn before falling; 

 their petioles slender, I'-l^ long. Flo"wers ^' in diameter, on long slender pedicels, 

 in many-flowered glabrous corymbs ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes 



