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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



with lanceolate straight or falcate glandular bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, villose particularly toward the base, the lobes narrow, elongated, acuminate, 

 nearly glabrous, coarsely and irregularly glandular-serrate; stamens 20; styles 3-5, 



surrounded at the base by a broad ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit ripening and 

 falling at the end of September or early in October, on slender slightly hairy 

 elongated pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, globose, bright red, ^'-^' in 

 diameter; calyx enlarged, with closely appressed lobes; flesh yellow, dry and mealy; 

 nutlets 3-5, full and rounded at the apex, narrowed and acute at the base, slightly 

 grooved on the back, about ^' long. 



Distribution. Abandoned fields and open Pine woods near Asheville, North 

 Carolina, at elevations of about 2200 above the level of the sea. 



110. Crataegus panda, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate, rounded and short-pointed or abruptly narrowed and acute at 

 the broad occasionally slightly lobed apex, concave-cuneate and glandular at the 



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entire base, and finely serrate above, with minute incurved glandular teeth, when 

 they unfold tinged with red and sparingly villose, nearly fully grown when the 



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