ROSACEA 



475 



glandular, sparingly villose at first, becoming nearly glabrous, -^'-f' long. Flo\wers 

 about f in diameter, on short villose pedicels, in simple 3-6-flowered corymbs; 



calyx-tube broadly obconic, hairy near the base, with scattered pale hairs, gla- 

 brous above, the lobes broad, acuminate, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, 

 pilose on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers pale purple; styles 3-5, surrounded 

 at the base by small tufts of white hairs. Fruit ripening and falling late in August 

 and early in September, on stout pedicels, usually in 1 or 2-fruited clusters, pear- 

 shaped, dark orange-colored, with a red cheek, ^'-|' long, nearly 1' wide; calyx 

 enlarged, the lobes coarsely glandular-serrate, puberulous on the upper surface, 

 closely appressed; flesh soft and yellow; nutlets 3-5, obtuse and rounded at the 

 ends, rounded and slightly ridged on the back, about |' long. 



A tree, sometimes 30 high, with a trunk 10'-12' in diameter, covered with dark 

 gray or brownish bark, crooked horizontal or ascending branches forming a broad 

 irregular head, and stout often contorted branchlets villose at first, soon glabrous, 

 dull reddish brown to ashy gray, and armed with slender straight spines ^'-f long. 



Distribution. Sandy soil near Bristol, Florida. 



105. Cratsegus ignava, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate to ovate, acute, gradually narrowed from near the middle to the 

 concave-cuneate glandular base, sharply often doubly serrate above, with glandular 

 teeth, and usually divided toward the apex into short acute lobes, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of April, and then membranaceous, glabrous with 

 the exception of a few hairs along the midribs above and along the midribs and slen- 

 der veins below, and at maturity subcoriaceous, bright green and lustrous on the 

 upper surface, pale and still hairy on the lower surface, l^'-2' long and l'-l|' wide, 

 turning in the autumn yellow and brown sometimes flushed with red; their petioles 

 slender, wing-margined at the apex, glandular, j-^' long. Flowers about |^' in 

 diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels, in 3-6-flowered simple corymbs, with lanceo- 

 late conspicuously glandular reddish bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 

 glabrous, the lobes abruptly narrowed from the base, wide, glabrous, glandular, with 

 dark red stipitate glands, and often coarsely serrate above the middle; stamens 20; 

 anthers large, purple; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a ring of pale hairs. 

 Fruit ripening and falling at the end of September and early in October, on slender 



