ROSACEAE (^KOSE FAMILY) 



467 



10 stamens, pink anthers, Siud pyriform yellow-green fruit. It should be sought 

 in s. Va. 



§7. PARVIFOLIAE Loud. (Uniflorae Beadle.) Leaves rather small ^ spatit- 

 late, obovate, or oval, obtuse, rounded, or acute at the apex, vuneate at 

 the base, crenate, crenate -dentate, or serrate, subcoriaceous, shining above, 

 very pubescent ichen young, becoming scabrate above vjhen mature; petioles 

 very short, pubescent, winged ; corymbs tomentose, \-'o-flowered ; calyx-lobes 

 long and foliaceous, slightly pubescent, laciniate ; stamens about 20; 

 anthers white: styles 6-7 ; fi'uit jmbescent, globose or pyriform, greenish- 

 yellow or red; calyx prominent, its lobes reflexed ; flesh firm; nutlets 

 usually 5, often more; shrubs, 1-4 m. tall, armed with slender straight 

 often foliaceous spines 1-6 cm. long. 



Leaves obovate or spatulate, usually obtuse ; corymbs 1-3-flowered . 

 Leaves ovate, usually acute ; corymbs 3-6-fJowered 



21. C. tomentosa 



22. C. Vailiae. 



21. C. tomentbsa L. Leaves obovate to spatulate, obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex, 1.5-4 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, crenate; corymbs \-Z-flowered, flowers^ 

 1-L5 cm. wide; fruit subglobose, 1-1.5 cm. thick, yellow-green; nutlets 7-9 

 mm. long, grooved on the back ; nest of nutlets 8-10 uju:. thick. (C. uniflora 



Muench. ; C. parvifolia Ait.) — Sandy soil, L. I. to 

 Fla., w\ Ky., Mo., and centr. Tex. Fl. May ; fr. Oct. 

 Fig. 774. Var. Smithii (Sarg.) Eggleston. Leaves 

 serrate; fruit red. — Near Philadelphia. Fl. May; 

 fr. Sept. 



22. C. Vailiae Britton. Leaves 2-6.6 cm. long, 

 1-4.5 cm. ^\\6e, oval or ovate, acute at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate. often slightly 

 3_5-lobed ; petioles 4-10 mm. long ; coi'ymbs 3-6- 

 floicered ; flowers 1-1.5 cm. wide; fruit globose, 

 8-10 mm. thick, reddish-brown; nutlets 5-6 mm. 

 nest of nutlets 7-8 mm. thick. — Va. to n. w. 



long 

 Ga. ; 



§8. 



774. C. tomentosa. 



Greensboro, Ala. 



EOTUXDIFOLIAE Eggleston. (Coccixeae 

 Sarg.) Leaves elliptical-ovate to orbicular, 

 doubly serrate or lobed. subcoriaceous, dark 

 yellow-green and shining above ; petioles glandu- 

 lar, slightly icinged above, 1-5 cm. long ; young 

 foliage usually yellow-green ; corymbs many- 

 flowered ; calyx-lobes glandular-serrate, usually 

 lanceolate-acuminate; stamens 5-20; anthers 

 usually yellow; styles 2-5 ; fruit depressed-glo- 

 bose to short-ovoid, red ; flesh soft; calyx-lobes 

 reflexed ; nutlets usually 3-4, ridged on the back ; 

 round-top2)ed shrubs and trees, 3-10 m. high, 

 with numerous curved spines (2-7 cm. long). 



Leaves elliptic-ovate, sharply cuneate, deeply-incised 



Leaves ovate-orbicular, broadly cuneate or truncate at base. 



Calyx prominent ; fruit subglobose 



Calyx obscure. 



Fruit pyriform, yellow-red 



Fruit globose, red. 

 Fruit angular in cross-section. 

 Fruit glabrous : flowers 2-2.5 cm. wide; leaves slightly lobed . 

 Fruit pubescent ; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide ; leaves sharply lobed . 

 Fruit round in cross-section. 

 Nest of nutlets .-shorter than thick ; fruit about 1 cm. thick, dark 



red; leaves 3-6 cm. wide ; anthers yellow 



Nest of nutlets longer than thick : fruit "about 1.5 cm. thick, carmine- 

 red ; leaves 4-s cm. wide ; anthers pink 



23. C. Columbiana. 



24. C. Macauleyae. 



25. C. Oakesianu. 



26. C. Jackii. 

 2T. C. irrasa. 



28. (7. rotundifolia. 



29. C. Joneaae. 



23. C. Columbiana Howell. Leaves cuneate-obovate or oblong, 2-6 cm. long, 

 1-5 cm. wide, incisely o-d-lobed above the middle, acute to acuminate, sparingly 



