118 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEX, 
covered with pale hairs on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis, and longer than the obovate creamy 
white petals and than the styles, which are usually five in number. The fruit ripens and falls in Octo- 
ber, and is half an inch across, with a broad deep cavity surrounded by the large and conspicuous 
calyx-lobes, thick dry sweet flesh, and small thin-walled nutlets acute above, rounded below, and deeply 
grooved on the back. 
Crategus uniflora is distributed from the valley of the Delaware River in New Jersey southward 
to Florida, Louisiana, and southern Arkansas; it grows usually in sandy soil in abandoned fields or 
along the borders of the forest, and only on the banks of the Appalachicola River in Bristol, Florida, 
on the slopes of a ravine occupied by Torreya and the Florida Yew, has it been noticed in tree-like 
form. 
Crategus uniflora was probably detected by Banister,’ who sent it, in 1713, to Bishop Compton? 
in whose garden it first flowered in Europe, and the earliest description was made from plants culti- 
vated in England? It is still found in most botanic gardens, but is cultivated as a curiosity rather than 
for ornament. It is hardy as far north as eastern Massachusetts. 
1 See i. 6. Dict. ed. 7, No. 17). Banister’s description as quoted by Miller 
2 See i. 6. (Oxyacantha folio parvo subrotundo, flore unico, theca foliaced incluso 
3 Mespilus foliis lanceolato-ovatis serratis subtus villosis, floribus  summitatibus ramulorum insidente) does not appear to have been 
solitariis, calycibus foliaceis, spinis longissimis tenuioribus (Miller, published. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Prats CXCI. Cratmeus uNIFLORA. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Cross section of a fruit, enlarged. 
. A nutlet, natural size. 
aorrannd 
. A nutlet divided transversely, enlarged. 
