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from its nearest relative, Crataegus rovcmea, hy its glandular petioles, its very gland- 

 ular bractiets aud calyx lobes, and its stout long spines. 

 Type locality not ascertained. 



Crataegus sargenti Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28 : 407. 1899.' 



An intricately branched tree rarely over 18 feet high, or more frequently a large 

 shrub from to 15 i'eet high, witli one or several stems covered with an ashy gray, 

 more or less scaly bark; branches spreading, armed with straight or curved spines 

 1 to 2i inches long; leaves thin to subcoriaceous, slightl}"^ pubescent when young, 

 soon smooth, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or round-cordate, 1 to 4i inches long and 

 from i to 2 inches wide, acute, rounded, or abruptly contracted at the base into a 

 wing-margined petiole, irregularly doubly serrate aud incisely lol)ed, the serratures 

 tipjied with minute glauds; stipules linear-lanceolate, glandular, or on vigorous 

 shoots foliaceous and lunate; flowers in a i'ew ft^w-llowercd, more or less pubescent 

 corymbs, stamens normally 20, pistils 3 to 5; fruit globose or depressed-globose, 

 nearly I inch in diameter, yellow t > orange, with a thin, firm flesh, and including 3 

 to 5 bony, thick-walled nutlets. 



('. sargenti is a most distinct aud showy species, belonging to a very natural group 

 which in the herbaria are preserved under the names of C. rotundifolia, C. {/landiilosa, 

 and C. coccineu, titles which correctly belong to widely different plants. 



Carolinian area. Northern Georgia (Rome) to southeastern Tennessee. 



Alabama: Mountain region. Rocky woods aud blufts. DeKalb County (7?eaf?Ze). 

 Flowers about 1st of May when the leaves are almost fully grown. Fruit ripens 

 and falls about the middle of September. 



Type locality : " Near "N'alleyhead, Ala." 



Crataegus boyntoni Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 409. 1899. 



A tree seldom more than IS feet high, or frequently a large branching shrub from 

 6 to 12 feet high, the trunk from 6 to 9 feet in length and 4 to 8 inches in diameter, 

 with stout ascending branches which form a narrow, occasionally a flat-topped head, 

 the spines straight or curved, 1^ to 2| inches long. Leaves yellowish green, paler 

 beneath, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs along f he midrib and larger veins, 

 broadly ovate or oval, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base into the 

 margined glandular petiole, or on vigorous shoots deltoid-ovate, sharply and irreg- 

 ularly serrate, doubly serrate, or incisely 5 to 7 lobed; stiiiules linear, glandular, 

 caducous, or on strong shoots foliaceous and Innate, glandular-serrate ; flowers large, 

 from 9 lines to nearly 1 inch in diameter, borne on glabrous pedicels with one or 

 two glandular bractiets, in short 4 to 10 flowered corymbs ; stamens 10, anthers light 

 yellow ; pistils 3 to 5 ; fruit dull yellowish green to russet-red, depressed-globose, 

 angled, about IJ inches long and 8 lines wide. 



Closely related to the last, but distinguished by the manj'-flowered glabrous 

 corymbs and shorter stamens, and l)y the ditt'erent habit of growth. Many speci- 

 mens are preserved in herbaria, the greater part of which are also labeled f. coccinca, 

 C. glandulosa, or C. rotundifolia. C. rotundifolia of Britton and Brown's Illustrated 

 Flora is in part to be referred to this species. (The material collected l)y the writer 

 near Greenville, Ala., is most likely to be united with it, which would extend its 

 southern range to the Louisiana area. Mohr.) 



Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Delaware to Virginia, Tennessee, and CJeorgia. 



ALABA:\rA: Mountain region; banks of streams, and even in the shallow dry soil of 

 uplands; copses and fields. Flowers before the middle of May; fruit ripens and 

 falls early in October. 



Type locality : " Biltmore, N. C." 



Crataegus mollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele, Linnaea, 21:. 569. 1848. Downy Haw. 



Crataegus coccinea var. mollis Tt)rr. & Gray, Fl. X. A. 1:465. 1840. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 165. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 107. 



Mexico. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England ; Massachusetts west to Michigan, 

 Minnesota, and Iowa, south to Arkansas, Tennessee, aud Texas. 



Ala uama : Mountain region to Upper division Coast Pine belt. Rich wooded banks. 

 Cullman County. Hale County, Gallion. Clark County. Jackson County (Dr. 

 Dennij), A])ril 12, 18.52. Flowers white, April; fruit ripe October, crimson. A small 

 tree, 20 to 25 feet high, sparsely scattered in the valleys of the mountain region, and 

 more frequent in the prairies. 



'The descriptions of this and following species of Crataegus, with the accompany- 

 ing notes, are mainly drawn from C. D. Beadle, Studies in Crataegus, Bot. Gazette, 

 vol. 28, pp. 405 to 417. 1899. 



