Genus 6. 



APPLE FAMILY. 



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54. Crataegus pruinosa (Wemll.) K.Koch. Wax}-- fruited Thorn. 



C, populifolia Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i : 55,!- 



1 82 1. Not Walt. 

 Mespiliis pruinosa Wendl. Flora 6: 700. iSjj. 

 C. pruinosa K. Koch. Hort. Dend. 168 1853. 

 C. Porteri Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gar. I : 



5: 448. 1900. 



A shrub or tree, "sometimes 20 high, 

 with ascending branches, an irregnlar crown, 

 and nnmerous slender spines, i'-2l' long. 

 Leaves elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, i'- 

 2i' long, i'-2Y wide, acute or acuminate at 

 the apex, abruptly cuneate, rounded or oc- 

 casionally cordate at the base, serrate or 

 doubly .serrate with 3 or 4 pairs of broad 

 acute lobes towards the apex, membranous, 

 glabrous, blue-green ; corymbs glabrous ; 

 flowers about 10" broad; stamens 10-20; 

 anthers pink or sometimes yellow ; styles 

 and nutlets usually 4 or 5 ; fruit depressed- 

 globose to short-ellipsoid, strongly angled, 

 pruinose, apple-green becoming scarlet or 

 purple, 6"-8" thick ; calyx-tube prominent, 

 the lobes spreading, entire, persistent. 



Rocky open woods, western New England to 

 Michigan. North Carolina and Misouri. May ; 

 fruit ripe October. 



Fig. 2388. 



55. Crataegus Kelloggii Sargent. Kellogg's 

 Thorn. Fig. 2389. 



C. Kelloggii Sarg. Trees & Shrubs I : 117. 1903. 



A small tree, sometimes 25 high, with erect branches, 

 rough bark and occasional straight spines, i' long. 

 Leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded at^ the 

 apex, broadly cuneate or truncate at the base, iF-2i' 

 long, i'-2i' wide, serrate or doubly serrate with broad 

 lobes above the middle, dark yellow-green, slightly pu- 

 bescent, becoming glabrate above, pubescent along the 

 veins beneath; petioles slender, villous when young: 

 corymbs pubescent; flowers about 7" broad; calyx 

 slightly villous, the lobes glabrous outside, nearly entire; 

 stamens about 20; anthers red; styles and nutlets usu- 

 ally S; fruit subglobose to short-ovoid, bright yellow, 

 lo"-i2" thick; calyx-lobes spreading. 



Occasional in bottom-lands of the River Des Peres, 

 Carondelet, Mo. April ; fruit ripe September. 



56. Crataegus villipes Ashe. Thin-leaved Thorn. Fig 



Crataegus Hohnesiana Ashe, Journ. E. Mitch. Soc. 16: 78. 



Feb. 1900. Not C. Holmesii Lesq. 

 Crataegus tenuifolia Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card, i : 448- 



March 1900. Not Guild. 

 Crataegus Hohnesiana var. villipes Ashe, Journ. E. Mitch. 



Soc. 17^: II. 1 90 1. 

 C. villipes Ashe, Ann. Carn. Mus. i : 388. 190^. 



A tree, sometimes y3 high, with strongly ascending 

 branches, the thorns 1Y-2I' long. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, 

 i'-},i' long, %'-2l' wide, serrate or doubly serrate with 

 4-6 pairs of acute or acuminate lobes with tips usually 

 reflexed, pubescent, or at length scabrous above, pu- 

 bescent along the veins beneath ; corymbs glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent; flowers about 8" broad; stamens 

 5-:o; styles and nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit pyriform 

 or ellipsoid, crimson, about 6" thick, the calyx-lobes 

 enlarged, erect, persistent. 



Maine and Quebec to central Michigan, south in the 

 mountains to North Carolina. "May ; fruit ripe August- 

 September. 



2390. 



