468 ROSACEA. Crataegus. 



scattered, often much larger, roundish, variously lobed or incised, atten- 

 uate into a more or less margined petiole ; segments of the calyx triangular- 

 ovate, very short, glandless; styles 5; fruit very small (bright red) ovoid- 

 globose.— Mjr/;x. / j^. 1. -p. 288 ,• Pcrs. I. c; Ell. sk. 1. p. 55-2 ; Loudon, 

 arb. Brit. t. 31 ; Hook. Sf Am. ! conqmn. to hot. mag. 1. p. 25. (excl. remark 

 concerning the fruit) ; not of Pursh, Seringe, or Lindl. C. microcarpa, 

 Lindl..' hot. reg. t. 1846.* Mcspihis spathulata, hort. Par. ! Spach ! I. c. 



Virginia! to Georgia I Florida! Louisiana! Arkansas! and Texas! not 

 uncommon. May— Jime. — Shrub, or small tree, 12—15 feet high; the leaves 

 of the flowering branches fascicled on short lateral spurs, all greatly inclined 

 to vary in form ; those of the sterile and vigorous branches sometimes 2 

 inches in length and breadth, 3-cleft or undivided. Spines few and short. 

 Flowers small and pumerous, in nearly simple glabrous corymbs. Fruit 

 smaller than in C. cordata; the carpels thin and scarcely bony. 



* * Corymbs simple, few. (l-G.) foioered. 



12. C. eestivalis : flowers ajipearing rather before the leaves ; spines few^ 

 or none ; leaves elliptical or oblong-cuneiform (those of the sterile branches 

 often obovate), slightly petioled, somewhat sinuate-toothed or angled towards 

 the summit, or irregularly crenate, rarely 3-lobed or incised, tomentose when 

 young, at length glabrous above, clothed especially along the veins beneath 

 with a rusty pubescence ; corymbs 3-5-flowered, glabrous ; flowers rather 

 large; segments of the calyx short, triangular, glabrous, glandless; styles 

 4-5 ; fruit (red) very large, globose. — Walt. Car. p. 148 (under Mespilus.) ; 

 Ell. I. c. (under C. elliptica.) C. opaca. Hook. Sf Am..' compan. to hot. 

 mag. 1. p>. 25. C. nudiflora, Nutt. ! mss. 



p. leaves at length glabrous, except the midrib beneath, shining above. — 

 C. lucida. Ell. I. c. ? not of Wang. 



Along the low wet banks of ponds and rivers, S. Carolina ! and Georgia! 

 to Florida! Louisiana! and Arkansas! Feb.-March. — Stems branching 

 from the base, often 20-30 feet high. Leaves 2-3 inches in length when 

 mature ; the margin sometimes a little sinuate or angled and scarcely ser- 

 rate, sometimes irregularly crenate, occasionally a little glandular. The 

 fruit ripens in April and May or June : it is half an inch or three-fourths of 

 an inch in diameter, ijuite juicy, of an agreeable acid taste, and is much 

 esteemed for making tarts, jellies, &c. — May Haw. Apple-Hatv. 



i 13. C. flava (Ait.): leaves obovate-cuneiform or somewhat rhomboid, 

 acute at the base, attenuate into a glandular petiole, serrate, mostly incised 

 or slightly lobed towards the apex, glabrous ; spines straight or arcuate ; 

 corymbs 1-4-flowered ; pedicels and caljTC glabrous ; flowers large ; styles 

 4-5 ; fi-uit large (greenish-yellow), turbinate or pyriform. — Ait. ! Ketc. {ed. 

 1.) 2. p. 169; Pursh! fl. 1. p. 338; Seringe, I. c. ; Loudon, arb. Brit. 3. p. 

 823, t. 31 (L) ; Lindl. ! hot. reg. t. 1939 ; not of Ell. nor Hook. 1 C. flava, 

 /?. lobata, Lindl. .' hot. reg. t. 1932. C . lobata, Loudon, I. c, not of Bosc ? 

 C. glandulosa, Ait. ! I. c., not of Mcznch, Willd. nor Michx. C. Carolini- 



* Pursh, who altogether mistook Michaux's plant, added to tho character of 

 C. spathulata the phrase '■'■ corymbis paucifloris, pedicellis brevibus, calycibus to- 

 nientosis" ; which is copied in De Candolle's Prodromus. Dr. Lindley's criticisms 

 on some manuscript observations of one of the authors of this work respecting 

 the species in question (in the Botanical Register, fol. 1957) proceed on the 

 supposition that this interpolated phrase forms part of the specific character given 

 by Michaux. 



