ROSACEA 



483 



glandular, villose at first, becoming glabrous, \'-^' long; on vigorous shoots broadly 

 obovate, deeply divided into narrow lateral ascending rounded lobes, concave-cuueate 

 at the base, with stouter midribs and veins arching to the points of the lobes, and often 

 1' long and |' wide. FloTvers ^'-f in diameter, on stout pedicels thickly covered 

 with matted pale hairs, solitary or in 2-flowered simple corymbs; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, pilose below, nearly glabrous above, the lobes slender, acuminate, glandular- 

 serrate, slightly hairy on the outer, glabrous on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers 

 pale yellow; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening in August, erect on short stout pedicels, pyri- 

 form, red, ^' long; calyx little enlarged, often deciduous; flesh thick and soft; nut- 

 lets 3-5, full and rounded at the ends, rounded and obscurely grooved on the back, 

 about \' long. 



A tree, 15-18 high, with a short trunk 5'-6' in diameter, covered with gray or 

 brownish rough bark, slender pendulous branches forming a broad symmetrical head, 

 and slender very zigzag branchlets, villose at first, becoming bright chestnut-brown 

 and very lustrous and ultimately dark reddish brown, and armed with numerous slen- 

 der straight spines usually about ^' long. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil, Ocala, Florida. 



113. Cratcegus annosa, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate, oval, or oblanceolate, cuneate and glandular at the base, sharply 

 and often doubly glandular-serrate above, and usually slightly lobed toward the 

 short-pointed acute apex; more than half grown when the flowers open early in 



April and then pale yellow-green and scurfy above, with a few short pale hairs above 

 and below near the base of the midribs, and at maturity thin and firm, bright green, 

 1-1^' long and f -1' wide, with prominent pale yellow midribs, and remote slender 

 veins extending very obliquely to the points of the lobes, turning in the autumn 

 yellow, orange, or brown; their petioles slender, narrowly winged above, conspicu- 

 ously glandular, with large dark glands, i'-|'long; on vigorous shoots broadly ovate 

 to obovate or suborbicular, coarsely serrate, conspicuously reticulate-venulose, some- 

 times 2' long and broad, with broadly winged petioles and foliaceous coarsely den- 

 tate persistent stipules often |' long. Flowers f' in diameter, on stout villose 

 pedicels, in simple 3-5-flowered villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, spar- 

 ingly villose toward the base, the lobes acute, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the 



