ROSACE. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 69 
CRATAGUS SARGENTI. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers dark purple. Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptical, subcoriaceous, 
lustrous, yellow-green. 
Crategus Sargenti, Beadle, Bot. Gazette, xxviii. 407 (1899). — Mohr, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. vi. 547 (Plant Life of 
Alabama). — Gattinger, Fl. Tennessee, 98. 
An intricately branched nearly glabrous tree, rarely more than twenty feet in height, with a tall 
trunk six or seven inches in diameter, and stout ascending branches forming a narrow or sometimes a 
round or flat-topped head ; or often a large shrub with few or many stems. The bark of the trunk is 
thin, gray, or ight brown, slightly fissured and broken into numerous thin plate-like scales or nearly 
smooth and covered with minute closely appressed scales. The branchlets are slender, straight or 
occasionally somewhat zigzag, often short and frequently forked, marked by numerous small pale 
lenticels, and armed with thin straight or slightly curved dark chestnut-brown shining spines from three 
quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in length; glabrous and pale yellow-green when they first 
appear, they become bright red-brown and lustrous during their first summer, and dull gray-brown in 
their second season. The leaves vary from oblong-ovate to elliptical or rarely to ovate, and are acute 
or acuminate at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate or rounded at the nearly entire 
base, irregularly doubly serrate above, with glandular straight or incurved teeth, and usually irregularly 
divided into three or four pairs of short broad acute or acuminate lobes; nearly fully grown when the 
flowers open late in April, they are then subcoriaceous, pale yellow-green, and villose along the midribs, 
with scattered pale caducous hairs, and at maturity they are lustrous, dark yellow-green on the upper 
surface, pale on the lower surface, from two to three inches long and from an inch and a half to two 
inches broad, with thin midribs only slightly impressed above and from five to seven pairs of thin light 
yellow veins and conspicuous reticulate veinlets ; they are borne on slender grooved glandular petioles 
more or less broadly winged toward the apex by the decurrent bases of the leaf-blades, and from one 
half to three quarters of an inch in length. The stipules are linear or linear-lanceolate, glandular, and 
caducous, and on vigorous leading shoots they are often foliaceous, lunate, and coarsely glandular- 
dentate. Late in the autumn the leaves assume before falling bright yellow and red tints. The 
flowers, which are nearly an inch in diameter, are raised on long thin slightly villose pedicels, in from 
two to five-flowered but usually in three-flowered simple corymbs, with lanceolate coarsely glandular 
caducous bracts and bractlets. The calyx-tube is narrowly obconic and glabrous or slightly villose, 
and the lobes are foliaceous, acute, coarsely glandular-serrate above the middle, and reflexed after the 
flowers open. There are twenty stamens with long slender filaments and large purple anthers, and 
from three to five but usually four styles surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. The 
fruit ripens and falls after the middle of September, often only a single fruit maturing from a flower- 
cluster ; it is subglobose or short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, yellow or orange-yellow, 
generally more or less flushed with red, marked by occasional large dark dots, and from one third 
to one half of an inch in length ; the calyx is prominent, with an elongated tube and closely appressed 
lobes; and the flesh is yellow, thin, and firm. The nutlets, although usually four in number, vary 
from three to five, and are grooved and prominently ridged on the back, and about a quarter of an 
inch long. 
Crategus Sargenti inhabits rocky woods and bluffs in the foothill region of northwestern 
