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CRATAIGUS LACRIMATA. 
Yellow Haw. Sandhill Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers yellow. Leaves obovate, round or acute at the apex, subco- 
riaceous, dark yellow-green, and lustrous. 
Cratzgus lacrimata, Small, Torreya, i. 97 (1901). 
A nearly glabrous tree, occasionally twenty but usually not more than ten feet in height, with 
a tall stem from four to six inches in diameter covered with thick deeply furrowed nearly black 
bark broken on the surface into thick plate-like closely appressed scales, and long slender drooping 
branches forming a narrow handsome symmetrical round-topped head. The branchlets are thin, very 
zigzag, and armed with numerous small nearly straight dark chestnut-brown spines from one half to 
three quarters of an inch in length ; when they first appear they are light orange-brown, soon becoming 
reddish brown and lustrous, and dark gray-brown in their second year. The leaves are obovate, 
rounded or acute and glandular-serrate at the apex, usually with incurved teeth, entire and glandular 
below, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the base, and three-nerved, with slender yellow 
nerves, and with numerous thin secondary veins and reticulate veinlets; when the flowers open early 
in April they are nearly fully grown, and are then light yellow and glabrous, with the exception of 
small tufts of pale caducous hairs on the lower side in the axils of the nerves, and at maturity they 
are subcoriaceous, yellow-green and lustrous, from one half to three quarters of an inch long and 
about one third of an inch wide; they are borne on slender grooved petioles which vary from one 
quarter to one half of an inch in length, and are winged above by the decurrent bases of the leaf- 
blades, dark orange-brown and at first puberulous, soon become glabrous. The flowers are about two 
thirds of an inch in diameter, and are produced on short stout pedicels, in from three to five-flowered 
simple glabrous corymbs, with long linear entire caducous bracts and bractlets which turn red in 
fading. The calyx-tube is broadly obconic, and the lobes are gradually narrowed from broad bases, 
acuminate, entire, tipped with large dark glands, and reflexed after the flowers open. There are twenty 
stamens with slender filaments and large light yellow anthers, and usually three styles surrounded 
at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. The fruit ripens toward the end of August, and is 
subglobose or short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, dull brownish yellow marked by occasional 
large dark dots, and about a third of an inch in diameter, with a prominent elongated calyx-tube and 
spreading lobes which usually disappear before the fruit ripens; the flesh is thin, yellow, dry, and 
mealy. The three nutlets are very broad, rounded and sometimes obscurely grooved on the back, about 
three eighths of an inch long, and usually three in number. 
Crategus lacrimata inhabits western Florida, where it is common and often a conspicuous feature 
of the vegetation from Pensacola to De Funiak Springs, sometimes growing in moist sand, but more 
often in dry barrens covered principally with a stunted growth of Quercus Catesbei. It appears to 
have been first collected at Crest View on May 11, 1898, by Mr. A. H. Curtiss.’ 
1 See ii. 50. 
