74 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACES, 
elongated pedicels; it is globose but sometimes rather broader than long, dull red marked by small pale 
dots, and from one third to one half of an inch in diameter ; the calyx is enlarged and prominent, 
with a broad shallow cavity and closely appressed glandular-serrate usually persistent lobes; the flesh 
is yellow, dry, and mealy. The five nutlets are thick, rounded, ridged, and often grooved on the back, 
and about a quarter of an inch long. 
Although perhaps nowhere very abundant, Crategus collina is a common inhabitant of the foothill 
region of the southern Appalachian Mountains, where it grows on hillsides in rich soil from south- 
western Virginia’ to central Georgia,’ and westward to middle Tennessee’ and central Alabama,' 
ascending in western North Carolina to elevations of twenty-five hundred feet above the sea. Long 
confounded with Crategus Crus-galli and Crategus punctata, which it resembles in habit, Crategus 
collina was first distinguished at Rome, Georgia, by Dr. A. W. Chapman.° 
1 On June 23, 1892, Crategus collina was collected in the north 8 In Tennessee Crategus collina ranges at least as far west as 
fork of the Holston River valley, Smythe County, Virginia, by Nashville, where it is common on the limestone hills west of the 
N. L. and E. G. Britton and Anna Murray Vail. city. 
2 In central Georgia Crategus collina is abundant in Grant Park 4 The most southern point in Alabama where I have seen this 
and on the banks of the Chattahoochee River at Atlanta, and ranges tree is in the neighborhood of Birmingham. 
eastward at least as far as Augusta. The most southern point at 5 See vii. 110. 
which I have seen this tree is at Columbus on the Chattahoochee. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
PuatE DCLIV. Cratmeus coLuina. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A fruit divided transversely, enlarged. 
. A nutlet divided transversely, enlarged. 
. A spine from the trunk of an old tree, natural size. 
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