168 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEE. 
Crategus senta grows in abandoned fields and in open Oak and Pine woods near Asheville, 
North Carolina, at elevations of about twenty-two hundred feet above the sea-level, where it was 
first distinguished by Mr. C. D. Beadle.’ 
1 What appears to be the same species, judging by the imperfect material which I have seen, grows near Aiken, South Carolina, and 
on the banks of the Savannah River at Augusta, Georgia. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
PuatE DCXCVII. CrataGus sENTA. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
A calyx-lobe, enlarged. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a fruit, natural size. 
. Cross section of a fruit, natural size. 
. A nutlet, side view, enlarged. 
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. A nutlet, rear view, enlarged. 
