CALYCIFLORAZ | 109 
umbels, and are fewin number. The calyx is downy. 
The claw is not so longas the calyx, combined below, 
smooth. | 
The fruit is a globose pome, at first green, then 
yellow or red. 
A crab tree is often 20 ft. in height. It isin flower 
in April and May. 
The stamens are overtopped by the five stigmas, 
which ripen first. The flower is conspicuous andt’ ¢ 
honey easily reached so that many insects visit the 
flower, cross-pollination necessarily following, though 
if insects do not visit the flower it is self-pollinated. 
The flowers turn towards the light, laterally, and in 
this way pollen can fall upon the stigmas. Humble 
bees, hive bees, etc., and numerous flies visit the 
flowers. 
As the fruit is edible it is dispersed by birds. 
Apis, Aplya, Applelyn, Apple John, Appe, Appulle, 
Bittersgall, Bittersweet, Cats’ Heads, Coling, Crab, 
Crabstock, Grab, Grabstock, Gribble, Koling, Leather 
Jacket, Morris Apple, Nurse Camden, Pomewater, 
Sap, Scarb Jacket, Scrab, Screyt, Scrog, Star Apple, 
Well Apple, Wilding are names by which the Crab 
Apple is known in different parts. 
In reference to the name Bittersgall, it was re- 
marked of a silly person that ‘‘ He was born where 
the bittersgall da grow, and one o’m fall’d on his 
head, and made a zaate (soft) place there.” : 
