48 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Crataegus paradoxa.—A shrub 5-8 feet high. On dry lime- 
stone barrens, Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus Parkae—A tree 20-25 feet high. On moist 
prairies, Greene County, Missouri. 
Crataegus effulgens—A shrub 10-15 feet high. On moist 
prairies, Greene County, Missouri. 
Crataegus polyclada.—A tree 15-20 feet high. On moist 
prairies, Greene County, Missouri. 
Crataegus setosa—A tree 15-25 feet high. On gravelly 
borders of streams, Carter County, Missouri. 
PUNCTATAE GROUP 
Crataegus succincta.—A tree 14-18 feet high, with a tall 
trunk covered with a dark red-brown bark broken into small, 
closely appressed scales. Branches large, spreading below 
and ascending above, forming a broad, rather open head; 
branchlets slender, nearly straight, orange-green at first, be- 
coming dull chestnut-red and reddish brown the second year, 
armed with slender, slightly curved, purple, shining spines. 
Leaves acute and short-pointed at the apex, gradually nar- 
rowed to the base, finely serrate above the middle, about half 
grown when the flowers open in the middle of May, thin, 
firm, yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, 
paler beneath. Flowers white, in 4—7-flowered corymbs; an- 
thers pale yellow; stamens 20. Fruit lustrous orange-red, 
ripening early in October. Habitat: tops of limestone hills, 
St. Louis and Franklin Counties, Missouri. 
Crataegus verruculosa.—A tree 20-25 feet high. On grav- 
elly banks of streams, Greene County, Missouri. 
Crataegus sordida.—A tree 20-25 feet high. In low woods 
and gravelly banks of streams, Shannon, Carter, and Ripley 
Counties, Missouri. 
Crataegus angustata.—A shrub 5-12 feet high. On gravelly 
banks of streams, Taney County, Missouri. 
Crataegus vicina—aA tree 20-25 feet high. On _ hillsides, 
Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus sucida.—A tree 20-25 feet high. On gravelly 
banks of streams, Shannon County, Missouri. 
Crataegus macropoda.—A tree 10-15 feet high. In low 
moist ground, Jasper County, Missouri. 
