ROSACEZ. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 169 
CRATZiGUS APRICA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 10; anthers yellow. Leaves obovate to orbicular, subcoriaceous, dark 
green, and lustrous. 
Crateegus aprica, Beadle, Bot. Gazette, xxx. 335 (1900). — Gattinger, FU. Tennessee, 99. 
A tree, occasionally twenty feet in height, with a stem six or eight inches in diameter covered 
with deeply furrowed bark broken irregularly into small persistent plate-like scales, and dark gray or 
on old stems often nearly black, and spreading more or less contorted elongated branches forming a 
broad open irregular head ; or frequently a much-branched shrub with several stout spreading stems. 
The branchlets are slender, zigzag, marked by many small oblong dark lenticels, and armed with thin 
nearly straight chestnut-brown spines from an inch to an inch and a half in length; when they first 
appear they are dark green tinged with red, and villose ; soon becoming nearly glabrous, at midsummer 
they are light orange-brown, dark reddish brown or purple before winter, and ultimately ashy gray. 
The winter-buds are globose, bright red-brown, and about an eighth of an inch in diameter. The 
leaves are broadly obovate, oval, or rhomboidal, acute and short-pomted or rounded at the apex, 
gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate at the base, dentate usually only above the middle, with 
small incurved teeth terminating in conspicuous rose-colored ultimately dark red persistent glands, and 
often somewhat lobed toward the apex, particularly on vigorous shoots, with short acute lobes ; when 
they first unfold they are of a deep orange color, roughened above by short pale appressed hairs and 
sparingly villose below, particularly along the slender midribs and remote primary veins, and at maturity 
they are thick and firm in texture, glabrous, very smooth, dark yellow-green on the upper surface, paler 
on the lower surface, from an inch to an inch and a quarter long and an inch wide ; they are borne on 
stout grooved conspicuously glandular petioles, which are more or less winged above by the decurrent 
bases of the leaf-blades, at first villose, ultimately nearly glabrous, usually bright red on the lower 
side and toward the base after midsummer, and about half an inch long. The stipules are linear or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, and glandular-serrate. On vigorous leading shoots the leaves are often nearly 
orbicular, more frequently and more deeply lobed than the leaves of lateral branchlets, and from an 
inch and a half to two inches long and wide, with stout broad-margined petioles and foliaceous lunate 
stipules. The flowers, which open about the tenth of May, when the leaves are nearly fully grown, 
are three quarters of an inch in diameter, and are produced on slender pedicels, in small three to 
six-flowered villose nearly sessile corymbs. The calyx-tube is broadly obconic, villose at the base, 
glabrous above, and the lobes are gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, glabrous, coarsely 
glandular-serrate, and reflexed after the flowers open. There are ten stamens with short slender 
filaments and small bright yellow anthers, and from three to five styles surrounded at the base by a 
narrow ring of pale hairs. The fruit ripens late in the autumn, and is borne on stout glabrous or 
slightly villose pedicels from one quarter to one half of an inch in length, in erect or drooping 
usually two or three-fruited clusters ; it is subglobose, rarely rather longer than broad, dull orange- 
red, often slightly villose at the ends, and marked by numerous small dark dots; the calyx is much 
enlarged, with a broad prominent deep tube and wide-spreading coarsely glandular acuminate lobes 
which are bright red at the base on the upper side; the flesh is thin, light yellow, sweet, and rather 
juicy. The nutlets, which are large in proportion to the size of the fruit, vary from three to five in 
