leOSANDRIA BI 



PEKTAGINIA. 



55 i 



9. 



Flava. 



C. spinosa; foliis obov 

 to-cuneatis, an?:iilatis, gl 

 bris, nitidis ; petiolis, s 

 pulis calycibusque 

 diilosis ; flnribus subsoli. 

 tariis; baccis turbinatis 



Spiny 



Sp. pi 



s. 



; leaves obovate 



cuneate, angled, glabrous, 

 shining; petioles, stipules 

 and calyx ^^andular; flow- 

 ers generally solitary ; 



berries turbinate, 4 seed- 

 ed. 



tetrasperniis. 



p. 1002, 



Pursli, l.p. 338. 



C. viridis ? Walt. p. 147. 



Plant 8—10 (eet high. Spines short, rather strong ; yoim* branches 

 and /.ares villous ; o d leaves obtuse and lobed at7he summit finely 

 serrate, ha.ry along the vems on both surfaces, abruptly narrowed at 

 base Shpules somewhat reniform, and, with the Lioles an7 se^- 

 rtents of the calyo, serrated with glqbular glan/s. Corymbs h% 

 flowered. Frwif globular. ^yryf/to* ie\ir 



This description is taken from the C viridis of Walter, a plant 



a el/ '^f%\^^^^^i^ much hesitation, and in which the 'cor^^mte 

 are generally 5— 6 flowered. -^ 



Grows in the middle aud upper country of Carolina, 

 rlowers March — April. 



Here also apparently belongs the summer haw of our southern sea- 

 islands. An arborescent shrub. 8-14 feet high, with coarse rimose 

 bark, resembling that of the oak. Leaves taplring at 'base! near ? 

 in"^;'; "r* serrate, merely mar^nned with glandular dots, pibesc^n^ 

 m the axils of the veins and on the petioles; the youn- leaves som? 

 times slightly lobed, obtuse, with a small poi'nt at ti submit Fhw. 

 mtrequently solitary, sometimes in very small corymbs, penta-yn- 

 ous. FrmUval, red, 4 seeded, well flavoured. ' *'- 



Grows in sandy soils ; ripens its fruit in August. This variety dJf- 



m each cor mb '" eerratures, and by flowers less numerous 



10. ViRinrs ? 



C. spinosa ; foliis sub 

 ^silibus, spatbulato-ova 



us, rotund ato 

 J^atis, glabris , 



aly 



■^abris, laciniis glandule 



Spiny ; leaves 

 sessile, spathulate ovate, 

 with 1 ound lobe 

 glabrous; calyx 



so-serratis. 



E 



the scg 

 dular 



ith dan- 



» 



serratures. 



2. p. 1001. 



espilus byemalis, Walt p. t48. 



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