ROSACEA 



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flowers open the 1st of April and then roughened above by short pale rigid hairs 

 and villose above and below on the midribs and on the veins below, and at maturity 

 glabrous, or puberulous on the under surface of the slender midribs, subcoriaceous, 

 light green and lustrous, glandular, I'-l^ long, f'-l' wide, with slender primary 

 veins extending very obliquely toward the end of the leaf, turning yellow-brown or 

 orange color in the autumn before falling; their petioles slender, slightly wing- 

 margined at the apex, villose at first, becoming glabrous, glandular, about |' long; 

 on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, rounded, apiculate and lobed at the apex, puberu- 

 lous and villose along the midribs and veins on the lower surface, often 1|' long and 

 2' wide. Flo-wers |'-|' in diameter, on slender hairy pedicels, in compact 3-5- 

 flowered simple corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with matted white 

 hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, glandular-serrate, 

 more or less villose; stamens 20; anthers nearly white; styles 3-5, surrounded at the 

 base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening and falling at the end of August 

 or early in September, on stout pedicels, in erect few-fruited clusters, globose or 

 depressed-globose, orange-yellow, with a red cheek, f'-f' in diameter; calyx slightly 

 enlarged, with closely appressed of ten deciduous lobes; flesh thick, succulent, orange- 

 yellow; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and acute at the ends, grooved on the rounded back, 

 with a broad shallow groove, about ^' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk sometimes a foot in diameter, covered with 

 dark rough bark, crooked recurved branches forming an open irregular head, and 

 stout branchlets covered at first with matted pale hairs, reddish brown and puberu- 

 lous during their first season, becoming gray, and unarmed, or occasionally armed 

 with stout spines ^'-V long. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil near Tallahassee, Florida. 



111. Crataegus integra, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate to oblong-obovate, narrowed from near the middle to the acute 

 apex, concave-cuneate and gradually narrowed to the slender base, conspicuously gland- 

 ular on the entire often slightly undulate margins, nearly half grown when the flowers 



open about the 20th of March, and then slightly hairy along the midribs and on the 

 under side of the veins, and at maturity subcoriaceous, bright green, lustrous, and 

 glabrous above, paler below, I'-l^' long and about f wide, with thin yellow midribs 



