68 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEZ, 
Crategus venusta grows in open Oak and Hickory woods on the dry slopes of a low hill known as 
Red Mountain in the southern part of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, where it was first collected in 
September, 1899, by Mr. C. L. Boynton of the Biltmore Herbarium, and by me in October of the same 
year and in the following April. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate DCLI. Crataeus vEeNusta. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a flower, the petals removed, enlarged. 
A calyx-lobe, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
A fruit divided transversely, natural size. 
A nutlet, rear view, enlarged. 
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. A nutlet, side view, enlarged. 
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- A leaf of a vigorous leading shoot, natural size. 
