a5S ICOSANDRIA DI-^PENTAGYNIA, 



Branches slender, with long, slender spines. Leaves nearly sessik, 

 ovate, spathulate at base, generally seven lobed, of which the two lower 

 are more distinct than the rest ; lobes round in the mature leaf, acute 

 in the young. Flowers in small corymbs. 



This description is taken from specimens sent me by Dr. Muhlen- 

 ber^ as the real C. viridis of Linnseus. It is certainly a species verj 

 distinct from the C. coccinea. To this plant however the synonyme 

 of Gronovius, 16S, cannot be referred* The C. glandulosa, Mich I. 

 pt 288, which Pursh has referred to the C. Hava, probably belongs here. 



The apple-haw ef the low country of Carolina apparently belimgs 

 to this species. An arborescent shrub, 8-^14 feet high, with crooked 

 rigid branches. Leaves nearly round, glabrous, 7 lobed, abruptly 

 terminating at base in a petiole nearly an inch long. Flowers k 

 small corymbs. Fruit very large, round, red, 



Grows Pensylvania-^Carolina. 



Flowers 



3—4 



11. Spathulata. Mich. 

 ^ C. subspinosa ; foliis fas- I Somewhat spiny ,• leaves 

 ciculatis, longe cuneatis, clustered, with a long ta- 

 3-fidislobatisque,crenalis, j pering base, 3 cleft and 

 glabns,- corymbis multi- I lobed, crenate, glabrous; 

 floris; calycibus glabris, | corymbs many flowered; 

 laclniis ovatis, integerri- calyx glabrous, segnieuts 



mis 



E* I ovate, entire. 



Mich. 1. p. 288. Pursh, 1. p. 356. 



A small tree 12—15 feet high. Leaves in short lateral fascicles, 

 some distinctly 3 cleft, others irregularly lobed, the lobes all crenate, 

 the base long and tapering to a petiole. Flowers in lateral corjmj^- 

 numerous, on pedicels nearlv as long as the leaves. C'alvje small- gla- 

 brous 5 segments short, ovate obtuse. Corolla white. Styles 5. 



trrows in the upper Districts of Georgia and Carolina ; in Colum- 

 bia county, Georgia, common— I have not seen it in the low country- 



If lowers April. 



12. Apiipolfa. Mich. 



C. spinosa ; foliis delt- j Spiny ; leaves deltoid 

 oideo-ovatis, inciso-loba- ovate, notched and lobe^i 

 tis, lobis inciso-serratls, | lobes deeply serrate 



pilosis ; calycibus pilosis, I hairy ; calyx hairy, vvit^ 1 



lacmusserratis; floribus tlie segments serrate j 



dig> 



Mich. 1. p. 28r. Pursh, I. p. 336. 

 ^. oxyacantha. Walt. p. 14T, 



flowers digy 



