nosAOEiE. (rosk family.) 159 



4. R. bl^nda, Ait. (Eakly Wild-Rose.) NcuiIi/ unarmed, or with 

 scattered straij^lit dueiduous prickles (l°-3° high) ; kajlels 5-7, oral or Mony, 

 obtuse, jmie on both sides and minutely downi/ or Itounj beneath, serrate ; stipules 

 large; flowers 1 -3, ihc juduncks and liili/x-lulie smooth and ijlaucous ; fruit glo- 

 bose, crowned with the persistent erect and conniveiit entire calyx-lobes. — 

 Rocks and i)anks, Vermont to I'cnn. and Wisconsin, cliicHy northward. May, 

 June. — Petals light rose-color. 



5. R. rubigin6sa, L. (Swkkt-Brikr.) Ciinilnng high; prickles numer- 

 ous, the larijerones stromj and hooked, the smaller awl-sluiped ; leaflets doubly serrate, 

 rounded at the base ; downy and clothed with /rafjranl russet glands beneath ; fruit 

 pear-shaped or olmrate, crowned u-ith the mostly persistent calyx-lobes. — Roadsides 

 and thickets. June- Aug. (Nat. from Ku.) 



6. R. MicR.ixTUA, Smith. (Smaller-fl. S.) Prickles uni/orm and hooked ; 

 fruit elliptical and ovate ; calyx-lobes deciduous ; flowers smaller: otherwise as the 

 last: a mere variety of it. — E. New England to Virginia. (Nat. from En.) 



16. CRATJEGUS, L. IIawtiiokn. Wiutk Tuork. 



Calyx-tuhe uin-sliaiK'd, the limh .'i-clcft. Petals 5, roundisli. Stamens many, 

 or only 10-5. Styles I -5. Pome drupe-like, containing 1-5 liony 1-sceded 

 stones. — Thorny shrubs or small trees, with simple and mostly lobed leaves, 

 and white (rarely rosc-colorcd) blossoms. (Name from Kpdros, strength, on ac- 

 count of the hardness of the wood. ) 



* Cvrymhs many-floiuered. 

 T- Fruit very small, depressed-globose (not larger than pens), bright red: flowers 

 small : calyx-teeth short and broad: styles 5 : plants glabrous (except No. 1) and 

 gland/ess. 



1. C. PvRACANTHA, Pcrs. (EviiUGUKKV TiiORV.) Tjcaves evergreen, shiTi- 

 ing (1' long), Mong or spatuUite-lanceolate, crenulatc; the short petioles and 

 young branchlcts pubescent ; corymbs small. — Shrub, spontaneous at Wash- 

 ington, and near Philadeli)hia, Isaac Martindale. (Adv. from Eu.) 



•2. C. Spathulata, Michx. Leaves thickish, shining, hut(\cckhiow>, sjiatu- 

 lute or oblanceulate, with a long tapering base, cremtte above, rarely cut-lobcd, 

 nearly sessile. — Virginia and southward. May. — Shrub 10° - 15° high. 



3. C. COrdita, Ait. (Wa.«iiixgton Tuorx.) Ltaves broadly ovate or 

 triangular, mostly truncate or a little heart-shaped at the base, on a slender 

 petiole, lariously 3 - ^-xlffl or cut, serrate. — Virginia, Kentucky, and southward, 

 June — Trunk 15° -25° high. 



■*-■*- Fruit small (1' — J' long), ovoid, deep red: /lowers rather large: styles 1 -3. 



4. C. OxYAC.iNTHA, L. (English IIawtiiorx.) Smooth; leaves ol>ovate, 

 cnt-lobed and tuothvd, wedge form sit the base; calyx not glandular. May. — 

 More or less spontaneous as well as cultivated. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. C. apiifolia, Michx. Sottly pubescent when young ; leaves roundish, 

 with a broad truncate or slightly heart-shaped base, pinnattly 5-7-r/»/?, the 

 crowded divisions cut-lubed and sharply serrate ; petioles slender ; calyx-lobetj 

 glandular-toothed, slender. — Virginia and southward. March, April 



