RO8ACEAE (ROSE FAMILY) 



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long, 2-6 cm. wide, acute, broadly cuneate, doubly serrate with rather coarse 

 teeth and with 3-4 pairs of acute lobes, glabrous ; corymbs glabrous or slightly 

 pulirscent ; flowers about 2 cm. wide; calyx-lobes slightly villous inside; sta- 

 mens 5-10 ; styles 2-4 ; fruit 1 cm. thick, red ; flesh yellow, dry, sweet; nuth-ts 

 uxtinlly 2-3, 6-7 mm. long ; nest of nutlets 7-9 mm. thick. (C. glandulosa Ait. ; 

 C. coccinea, var. rotundifolia Sarg. ; C. Dodgei Ashe.) N. S. to s. Minn., s. to 

 n. 111., and in the Alleghenies to Va. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. Fio. 776. 



Var. Bicknellii Eggleston. Leaves somewhat sharply lobed toward the apex ; 

 calyx-lobes long, laciniate, persistent on the fruit ; nutlets usually 4-5. Nan- 

 tucket I., Mass. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. 



Var. Faxbni (Sarg.) Eggleston. Leaves, corymbs, and fruit pubescent. (C. 

 coccinea Linnean herbarium, in part.) Completely intergrading with the 

 typical form and of the same range. Fr. Aug., Sept. 



Var. chrysocarpa (Ashe) Eggleston. Leaves slightly smaller and fruit yel- 

 low-red ; otherwise like the preceding variety. (C. Sheridana Nelson.) Cook 

 Co., Minn. (MacMillan), to Col. and Assina. 



29. C. Jonesae Sarg. Leaves elliptical-ovate, 4-10 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 

 acute or obtuse, cuneate, glabrous except along the veins beneath, the lobes acute 

 and tips reflexed ; petioles slightly pubescent, 3-6 cm. long ; corymbs somewhat 

 villous ; flowers about 2.6 cm. wide ; calyx villous, its lobes linear, acuminate, 

 glabrous outside, slightly pubescent inside ; stamens about 10 ; anthers large, 

 pink; styles 2-3 ; fruit short-ellipsoidal to pyriform, about 1.5 cm. thick, bright 

 carmine-red, slightly pubescent ; flesh thick, yellow ; calyx-lobes long, ap- 

 prcssed; nutlets usually 3, about 9 mm. long; nest of nutlets about 8 mm. 

 thick. Mt. Desert I. and adjacent coast to Falmouth, Me. (Chamberlain). 

 Fl. June ; fr. Oct. 







9. MICROCARPAE Loud. Leaves spatulale to oblanceolate, 8-35 mm. 

 long, 4-20 mm. wide, acute or rounded and sometimes 3-5-lobed at the apex, 

 sharply cuneate into a winged petiole, crenate-serrate, dark green and 

 slightly villous along the veins above when young, 

 then glabrate, membranaceous ; flowers in many- 

 flowered glabrous corymbs, about 1 cm. wide ; calyx- 

 lobes deltoid, entire ; stamens about 20 ; anthers red; 

 styles 3-5 ; fruit globose to subglobose, red, 4-6 mm. 

 thick, with reflexed calyx-lobes and dry mealy flesh ; 

 nutlets 3-5, slightly ridged on the back, 3-4.5 mm. 

 long, bare at the apex; nest of nutlets 3.5-4.5 mm. 

 thick; shrub or small tree, 6-8 m. high; branches 

 upright and spreading ; bark grayish-brown, slightly 

 scaly ; twigs reddish-brown, glabrous ; thorns sparse, 

 straight, 3-4 cm. long. 



776. C. spathulata. 



30. C. spathulata Michx. The only species of the 

 section. Moist rich soil of the coastal region, Va. to 

 Fla. and Tex. ; also s. Ark. and s. e. Okla. FIG. 776. 



10. APIIFOLIAE Loud. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 1-4 cm. long, 

 1-4 cm. wide, acute, slightly cordate to cuneate at the base, pinnately 5-7- 

 lobed, simply or doubly serrate, pilose above when young, often glabrute, 

 pilose beneath, especially along the veins, membranaceous; petioles 2.5-5 

 cm. long, tomentose ; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide, in 3-12-flowered villous 

 corymbs; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous outside, 

 slightly pubescent inside; stamens about 20 ; anthers dark red; styles 1-3 ; 

 fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, 4-7 mm. long, scarlet, slightly pubescent with reflexed 

 calyx-lobes and thin firm flesh ; nutlets commonly 2, 5-6.5 mm. long, smooth 

 on the back, bare at the apex; nest 3-3.5 mm. thick, with no sinus between 

 the nutlets; shrubs or small trees, 2-6 m. high, with nearly horizontal 

 branches and smooth gray bark; twigs light red, long-tomentose but gla- 

 brate; thorns few, chestnut-brown, 2.6-4 cm. long, straight. 



