470 



ROSACEAE (ROSE FAMILY} 



777. C. Marshallii. 



31. C. Marshall!! Eggleston. The only species 

 of the section. (Mespilus apiifolia Marsh. ; C. apii- 

 folia Michx., not Medic.) Along streams and 

 about swamps in the lowlands, s. Va. to Fla., w. to 

 Mo. and Tex. FIG. 777. 



11. TENUIF6LIAE Sarg. Leaves ovate, serrate, 

 doubly serrate, or lobed, acute or acuminate, 

 slightly villous but glabrate, dark yellow-green 

 above, paler beneath ; petioles slender, 1.5-3 cm. 

 long; young foliage usually bronze-green; 

 corymbs many-flowered ; calyx-lobes lanceolate- 

 acuminate, usually entire (often glandular- 

 margined), slightly pubescent inside; stamens 

 5-20 ; anthers usually pink ; styles 2-5 ; fruit 

 ellipsoidal, ovoid, or pyriform, red, glabrous, 

 icith rather persistent erect or spreading calyx- 

 lobes and succulent edible flesh ; nutlets usually 



3-4, strongly ridged on the back; shrubs or small trees, 2-7 m. high, with 

 ascending branches and strong curved spines 2-7 cm. long. This section 

 is the most troublesome of any in our range, specific lines being here 

 particularly hard to draw. 



Fruit ellipsoidal, ovoid, or pyriform. 

 Calyx-lobes serrate. 



Leaves broadly ovate, flabellate, the lobes reflexed . . . . . 82. C. crudelis. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, the lobes spreading or ascending . . . . 88. C. lucorum. 

 Calyx-lobes entire. 

 Fruit small, 6-9 mm. thick, with rather firm flesh ; leaves conspicuously 



lobed 84. C. roanensis. 



Fruit large, 1-1.8 cm. thick, with soft flesh ; leaves not conspicuously 



lobed 86. C. macrosperma. 



Fruit com pressed -globose or subglobose. 



Lobes of the leaves rertexed ; leaves flabellate 86. C. Grayana. 



Lobes of the leaves spreading or ascending. 



Terminal leaves cuneate or rounded at the base 87. C. iilnorum. 



Terminal leaves cordate 88. C.populnea. 



32. C. crudfclis Sarg. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 3-7 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. 

 broad, sharply lobed (the tips of the lobes often recurved), broadly cuneate or 

 truncate, rarely cordate at the base, slightly villous above, becoming scabrate 

 or glabrate; corymbs slightly villous at first; flowers 1.5-2 cm. wide; calyx- 

 tube and inside of the lobes slightly villous ; stamens about 10 ; styles 8-5 ; fruit 

 ellipsoidal, 8-12 mm. thick, scarlet or crimson ; the 3-5 nutlets 6-8 mm. long ; 

 nest of nutlets 6-8 mm. thick. (Mespilus flabellata Bosc, not C. flabellata 

 Heldreich; C. blandita Sarg.) Caughnawaga Reservation to Falls of Montmo- 

 rency, Que. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. 



33. C. lucbrum Sarg. Leaves oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, 3-6 cm. long, 

 2-5 cm. wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at 

 the base, finely and doubly serrate or lobed; corymbs slightly villous; flowers 

 about 2 cm. broad ; calyx glabrous except for a slight pubescence on the inner 

 surface of the lobes; stamens about 20; anthers small, deep pink; styles 4-5; 

 fruit pyriform-ellipsoidal, crimson, 1.5-2 cm. long. Occasional, n. 111. and 

 s. e. Wise. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. 



Var. insolens (Sarg.) Eggleston. Styles 3-6 ; fruit ellipsoidal, scarlet, gla- 

 brous, 1-1.2 cm. long; flesh rather firm; nutlets usually 3-4, 6-7 mm. long; 

 nest of nutlets 6-7 mm. thick. Rare, n. e. Vt. 



34. C. roanSnsis Ashe. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 2.5-7 cm. long, 2-6 

 cm. wide, with 3-6 pairs of acute usually straight lobes, the 6a.se broadly cuneate 

 to cordate; corymbs glabrous or slightly villous; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide; 

 calyx-lobes slightly villous inside ; stamens 5-20, usually 5-10 ; styles 2-5 ; fruit 

 7-9 mm. thick, 9-13 mm. long, crimson; flesh rather firm ; nutlets 6--8 mm. 

 long; nest of nutlets 6-7 mm. thick. ( C. Jluviatilis Sarg. ; C. ascendens Sarg. .- 



