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CRATAhGUS FLORIDANA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers light yellow. Leaves obovate-cuneate, acute, and often 
lobed at the apex. 
Crategus Floridana. Cratzgus flava, Sargent, Silva N. Am. iv. 113 (in part), 
t. 189 (not Aiton) (1892). 
A tree, rarely more than fifteen feet in height, with a tall straight stem six or eight inches in 
diameter covered with thick nearly black deeply furrowed bark broken into short thick plate-like scales, 
and small drooping branches forming a handsome symmetrical head. The branchlets are slender, very 
conspicuously zigzag, pendulous, and armed with long thin straight spines, or unarmed; when they 
first appear they are coated with long pale matted hairs which gradually disappear, and during their 
first summer they are dark red-brown and more or less villose, becoming dull dark brown the following 
season. The leaves are obovate-cuneate and frequently three-lobed at the apex, with short rounded 
lobes, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, finely serrate above, with straight or incurved 
teeth tipped with showy bright red ultimately dark persistent glands and three-nerved, with slender 
nerves, and with numerous thin secondary veins and reticulate veinlets; slightly villose above as they 
unfold, they are nearly fully grown when the flowers open about the middle of March, and are then 
light yellow-green and glabrous, with the exception of a few mostly persistent hairs along the upper and 
the lower sides of the nerves and in their axils, and in the autumn they are thick and firm, dark green 
and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, from an inch to an inch and a half long 
and about half an inch wide; they are borne on slender tomentose ultimately pubescent or glabrous 
glandular petioles more or less broadly winged above by the decurrent bases of the leaf-blades, and 
usually about half an inch long. On vigorous leading shoots the leaves are frequently two inches long 
and an inch wide, and are sometimes divided by deep rounded sinuses into numerous narrow lateral 
lobes, and their stipules are lunate, foliaceous, pointed, and coarsely glandular-serrate. The flowers, 
which are about five eighths of an inch in diameter, are produced in few usually three-flowered simple 
compact tomentose corymbs, with linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate glandular caducous bracts and 
bractlets. The calyx-tube is broadly obconic, coated with long matted white hairs, and the lobes are 
narrow, acuminate, glandular, with bright red stipitate glands, villose toward the base on the outer 
surface and on the inner surface, and reflexed after the flowers open. There are twenty stamens 
with small pale yellow anthers, and four or usually five styles surrounded at the base by a broad ring 
of long shining white hairs. The fruit ripens from the middle to the end of August, and is solitary 
or in two or three-fruited drooping clusters, on short stout pubescent pedicels ; it is obovate, usually 
about three quarters of an inch in length, bright orange-red, lustrous, and marked by numerous pale 
dots; the calyx is prominent, with a wide elongated tube, puberulous on the outer surface, and 
reflexed glandular-serrate lobes; the flesh is thin, yellow, dry, and mealy. The four or five nutlets 
are rounded and occasionally slightly ridged on the back, and about one third of an inch in length. 
Crategus Floridana inhabits the dry sandy soil of the Pine barrens of northeastern Florida, 
where it is very abundant in the neighborhood of Jacksonville, and probably extends northward along 
the coast of Georgia. 
Formerly confounded with the Crategus flava of Aiton, Crategus Floridana was figured in the 
fourth volume of this work for that species. 
