104 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEL. 
bright orange or orange and scarlet in the autumn. The flowers are produced in broad leafy thick- 
branched corymbs, covered with pale tomentum or pubescence, and furnished with long lanceolate cadu- 
cous bracts and bractlets; they are borne on stout hairy pedicels, and open from the middle of May at 
the north to the end of June on the high mountains of North Carolina, and vary from one half to three 
quarters of an inch in diameter ; the calyx is narrowly obconic and more or less tomentose, with a dark 
red disk and narrow acute nearly entire or minutely glandular-serrate persistent lobes covered on the 
inner surface with scattered pale hairs, and nearly as long as the white petals. There are from two to 
five styles surrounded at the base by conspicuous tufts of white hairs. The fruit, which ripens and 
falls in the autumn, is pyriform or subglobose, dull red or sometimes bright yellow, marked by numer- 
ous small white spots, and three quarters of an inch to an inch in length, with a deep cavity surrounded 
by the remnants of the calyx-lobes and filaments, thin dry flesh, and thick-walled nutlets rounded and 
slightly or deeply grooved on the back. 
Crategus punctata is distributed from the valley of the Chateaugay River in the province of 
Quebec, where, in the neighborhood of Montreal, it is not uncommon, to the valley of the Detroit 
River in Ontario ; it is not rare in northern New Hampshire and Vermont, and extends south through 
western Massachusetts, where it abounds, and along the Appalachian Mountain system to northern 
Georgia, ascending in North Carolina and Tennessee to an elevation of six thousand feet above the 
level of the sea; it is very common in northern and western New York, ranges westward along the 
southern shores of the Great Lakes, and crosses the Mississippi River into eastern and southeastern 
Missouri. It usually grows in rich moist soil in forest glades, or in rocky upland pastures, where it 
often spreads into broad thickets. 
The wood of Crategus punctata is heavy, hard, and close-grained, with numerous thin medullary 
rays, and is bright red-brown, with thick pale sapwood. The specifie gravity of the absolutely dry 
wood is 0.7681, a cubic foot weighing 47.87 pounds. 
Crategus punctata is said to have been introduced into English gardens in 1746 by the Duke of 
Argyll,’ and the first description of it, published in 1770, was drawn up from plants cultivated in the 
Botanic Garden at Vienna. 
In cultivation Crategus punctata is a hardy tree of good habit, especially beautiful in the 
autumn, when its spreading branches are covered with its abundant and showy fruit. 
1 Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii. 169. — Loudon, Ard. Brit. ii. 818, f. 569, 570, t. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pratt CLXXXIV. Crarmeus PUNCTATA. 
1. A flowering branch, natural size. 
2. A flower, the petals removed, enlarged. 
3. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
4. Cross section of a fruit, natural size. 
5. A nutlet, natural size. 
6. A nutlet divided transversely, natural size. 
7. The end of a leafy branch showing the stipules, natural size. 
8. A subglobose yellow fruit, natural size. 
9. A winter branchlet, natural size. 
