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long crenate or obtusely serrate leaves, 7-10 cm. long, and depressed- 

 globose fruit about 1.2 cm. in diameter, green but often with a very 

 ruddy cheek. A variety of it, P. c. elUpsoidcdis* has shorter elliptic 

 leaves, serrate only above the middle. 



Other species of Pyrus. In addition to the aboye and to the 

 two species of crab apple which are mentioned in the Trees of Xorth 

 Carolina, there is a beautiful tree with maple-like leaves (Pyrus 

 glahrata (Rhed.) Bail.), which ocurs from Mitchell County, N. C. 

 southward in the mountains. Around Highlands occurs another, 

 Pyrus elongata (Rhed.) n. c.,f which has lanceolate, sharply serrate, 

 sometimes lobed, leaves, and small globose fruit often with a red 

 cheek. In the valley of the Tennessee River, in Macon County, 

 occurs Pyrus platycarpa (Rhed.) Bail., with elliptic leaves like those 

 of the domestic apple and very large, 10 cm. thick, green pomes. As 

 it is unarmed it has many traits suggesting hybridity with the domes- 

 tic apple as one parent. Around Asheville two others occur : P. redo- 

 lens n. c.,:{: with oblong crenate leaves and globose green fruit deeply 

 sulcate at apex; and P. lancifolia (Rhed.) Bail, with lanceolate un- 

 lobed leaves. 



Species of Crataegus. To the large number of red haws which 

 are enumerated might well be added, however, Crataefjus roanensis, 

 with small bright-red oblong fruit, common in the higher mountains ; 

 C. macrosperina, with large oblong bright-red fruit, occurring with 

 the preceding; C. cihUis, which occurs on the French Broad River 

 near Paint Rock and has scarlet globose fruit 1.8 cm. or more in 

 diameter; C. hrevipediceUaia, having small russet or dull red fruit, 

 frequent in Orange County, and C. hoyntoni huckleyi (Beadl.)§ n. 

 comb., which is frequent around Asheville. There are about thirty 

 other kinds in the State which become trees. 



Aesculus octandra purpurascens (Gr.). In tlie Trees of Xorth 

 Carolina a reference is made to a purple-ilowercd tr(>e buckeye. 



*Mahis caroUnrnnrx flHpsoiilaHs, idem. 



tJ/f»/K« elonnnlii. (Rliod.) Aslio. Hill. Oh. Mils. VI: 37. 1916. 



XM»htx rrtlohn.1 \.sli(', 1. <•. 1:1: 3!l. H»16. 



§r. hiirkhi/i licadl. IJiil. Hot. St. I: 2.'). litoi. 



