ROSACEZ. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 63 
CRATAGUS GEORGIANA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers rose color. Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, membrana- 
ceous, dark blue-green. 
Crategus Georgiana, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxiii. 113 (1902). 
A nearly glabrous tree, sometimes twenty-five or thirty feet in height, with a tall trunk ten or twelve 
inches in diameter covered with dark red-brown scaly bark, and stout wide-spreading branches forming a 
broad symmetrical round-topped head. The branchlets are slender, straight or somewhat zigzag, marked 
by occasional small pale lenticels, and armed with straight or slightly curved thin bright chestnut- 
brown lustrous spines rarely more than an inch and a half in length; when they first appear they are 
dark green tinged with red, becoming dull reddish brown during their first season and gray or light 
reddish brown during their second year. The leaves are ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, full 
and rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, finely and often doubly serrate, with straight or incurved 
gland-tipped teeth, and divided into numerous short acute lateral lobes; glabrous with the exception 
of a few pale caducous hairs on the upper surface and bronze-yellow when they unfold, they are 
nearly half grown when the flowers open about the twentieth of April, and are then thin, dark yellow- 
green above and pale below, and at maturity they are thin but firm in texture, dark blue-green on the 
upper surface, pale on the lower surface, from an inch and a half to two inches long and from an inch to 
an inch and a quarter wide, with slender yellow midribs and three or four pairs of thin primary veins 
only slightly impressed above ; they are borne on slender grooved petioles often short-winged at the 
apex by the abruptly decurrent bases of the leaf-blades and usually about three quarters of an inch in 
length. The stipules are linear-lanceolate, finely glandular-serrate, more or less deeply tinged with red, 
from one half to three quarters of an inch in length, and caducous. On leading shoots the leaves are 
often three inches long and two inches wide, or are sometimes deltoid, and usually much more deeply 
lobed than the leaves of lateral branchlets. The flowers are three quarters of an inch in diameter, and 
are produced on slender pedicels, in usually five to seven-flowered compact thin-branched compound 
corymbs, with linear glandular bracts and bractlets which turn bright red in fadmg. The calyx-tube is 
broadly obconic and the lobes are gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, and entire or 
obscurely and irregularly serrate. There are twenty stamens with small light rose-colored anthers, and 
five styles surrounded at the base bya narrow ring of pale tomentum. The fruit, which ripens and falls 
early in October, is borne on slender pedicels, in drooping few-fruited clusters; it is oblong, full and 
rounded at the ends, often obscurely five-angled, dull russet-green, and from three eighths to one half 
of an inch in length, with very thin light green dry hard flesh and only shghtly enlarged calyx-lobes 
which mostly disappear before the fruit falls, leaving a well-defined ring at the summit of the short 
calyx-tube. The five nutlets are thin, rounded and irregularly grooved on the back, and about a 
quarter of an inch long. 
Crategus Georgiana inhabits low rich river-bottoms and meadows in the neighborhood of Rome, 
Georgia.’ 
1 In company with Mr. William M. Canby I first noticed a large following year I gathered the flowers and fruit from this tree from 
specimen of this tree growing near the road leading from Rome _ which the plate of this species has been made. 
to the cliffs of the Coosa River on the 6th of May, 1899, and the 
