ROSACEA 



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they unfold roughened above by stout, rigid pale hairs, and soft and pubescent below, 

 nearly' fully grown early iu May when the flowers open, and then thin, dark yellow- 

 green above and pale below, and at maturity thick and firm ; dark green, lustrous, and 

 scabrate on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 2'-2l' long and I'-l^' wide, 

 with stout midribs and primary veins deeply impressed on the upper side of the leaf, 

 and conspicuous reticulate veinlets; their petioles stout, villose, more or less winged 

 above, \'-^' long; and furnished like the base of the leaf-blade with numerous large 

 stipitate dark glands; on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, cuneate and decurrent on their 

 stouter petioles, 3'-4' long and 2i'-3' wide, with lunate coarsely glandular-dentate 

 stipules frequently ^ long. Flo'wers ^' in diameter, in broad loose compound villose 

 usually 10-12-fiowered corymbs, with broad acute conspicuous glandular-serrate 

 bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, densely villose at the base and 

 glabrous or pubescent above, the lobes foliaceous, elongated, gradually narrowed 

 from broad bases, acute, bright green, more or less hairy, coarsely glandular-serrate, 

 with large stipitate dark red glands; stamens 10-20, usually 20; anthers large, light 

 yellow; styles 3-5. Frnit ripening and falling early in October, subglobose, often 

 rather longer than broad, bright red or orange-red, marked by numerous large dark 



dots; calyx enlarged, with spreading glandular lobes often deciduous before the 

 fruit ripens; flesh yellow, thick, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and rounded 

 at the ends, sometimes prominently ridged on the back, ^' long. 



A tree, sometimes 25 high, with a trunk 10'-12' in diameter, covered with light 

 gray or gray-brown bark and often armed with straight or much-branched spines, 

 wide-spreading light gray or reddish branches forming a rather open symmetrical 

 head, and slender branchlets coated when they first appear with long spreading 

 white hairs, pubescent or glabrous and light red-brown or orange-brown during 

 their first season, becoming dark or light gray the following year, and furnished 

 with numerous usually stout straight dark reddish brown shining spines 1^-2' long. 



Distribution. Dry limestone hills and ridges ; ^Yest Nashville, Tennessee; 

 common. 



100. Crataegus Ashei, Beadl. 



Leaves broadly ovate or occasionally obovate, acute and generally short-pointed 

 at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate and usually entire at the base. 



