ROSACEA E (ROSE FAMILY) 



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long, 2-0 cm. wide, acute, broadly cutipate, ddublj' serrate with rather coarse 

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

 pubescent; tlowers 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; nuthts 

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

 C cocrinea, var. rotundifoJia Sarg. ; C. Dochjei Ashe.) — N. !S. to s. Minn., s. to 

 n. 111., and in the Alleghenies to Va. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. Fig. 775. 



Var. Bicknellii Fggleston. 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. Faxoni (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. icide^ 

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

 and tips rejlexed ; petioles slightly pubescent, 3-5 cm. long ; corymbs somewhat 

 villous; flowers about 2.5 cm. wide; calyx villous, its lobes linear, acuminate, 

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

 pink; styles 2-3 ; fj^uit short-ellipsoidal to pyriform, about 1.5 cm. thick, blight 

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

 pressed; 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. 



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9. MICROCArPAE Loud. Leaves spatulate to oblanceolate, 8-35 mm. 

 long, 4-20 mm. icide, acute or rounded and sometimes o-o-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 ; floicers in many- 

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

 lobes deltoid, entire; stamens about 2^ ; anthers red; 

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

 thick, vjith 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-broion, glabrous ; thorns sparse, 



9^'®^ ^^ straight, 3-4 cm. long. 



116. C. spathulata. 



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

 section. — Moist rich soil of the coastal region, Ya,. 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. 

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

 lobed, simply or doubly serrate, pilose above ichen young, often glabrate, 

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

 cm. long, tomentose ; floicers about 1.5 cm. wide, in ?t-Vl-fl<ncered 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 icith reflexed 

 calyx-lobes and thin firm flesh ; nutlets commonly 2, o-G.o mn>. long, smooth 

 on the bark, bare at the apex; ne.st 3-3.5 mm. thick, with no sinus bftween 

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

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

 brate; thorns few, chestnut-brown. 2.5-4 cm. long, straight. 



