64 TREES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



1-3 inches long, ^-l^ inches wide, dark green and 

 shiny above ; flowers many in a cluster ; fruits many 

 in a cluster on a long drooping stalk, bright red, glo- 

 bose, 14 inch or less in diameter. 



95. Crataegus Boyntoni Beadle. Boynton's Thorn. 



Leaves broadly ovate or oval, 1-2% inches long, 

 1-2 inches wide, jagged toothed, sometimes shallowly 

 lobed, yellow green on the upper surface at maturity, 

 thick, leaf stalks glandular ; flowers 4-10 in a cluster, 

 stamens 10, calyx lobes sometimes glandular toothed 

 toward the end; fruits nearly globose, angled, % 

 inch in diameter, yellow-green with red, and marked 

 with small dark dots. A shrub or small tree, rarely 

 20 feet high, of the foot hill region where it is found 

 along the banks of streams, borders of fields and up- 

 land woods, sometimes ascending to an elevation of 

 3,000 feet. It is common in the valley of the French 

 Broad River. The range of this thorn is evidently 

 wider than is at present known, as we have a collec- 

 tion from a valley at Hartsville, S. C., in the coastal 

 plain. 



96. Crataegus flava Ait. Summer Haw. 



A small broad tree of sandy woods, commonly cul- 

 tivated in Europe. Leaves bronze and hairy when 

 unfolding, yellow green and smooth or nearly so at 

 maturity, oval to obovate, sometimes lobed, 1-3 inches 

 long, %-2 inches wide, toothed, the teeth gland tip- 

 ped, stalks gland tipped ; flowers in clusters of 3-7, the 

 calyx lobes usually cut and very glandular, bracts 



