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2. Malus lancifolia Rehder. NARROW-LEAVED CRAB APPLE. (M. 

 coronaria of manuals, in part.) Plate 73. Leaves ovate, oblong to ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. (Yi-^A inches) wide, 3.5-8 cm. (1^-3 

 inches) long, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex; rounded or broadly 

 cuneate at the base, finely serrate often doubly serrate, slightly tomen- 

 tose when young, becoming entirely glabrous; bright yellow-green on 

 both sides. Flowers 3-3.5 cm. broad, 3-6 in a cluster, pedicels slender, 

 glabrous. Calyx lobes oblong, lanceolate, glabrous outside, slightly 

 villous inside, fruit sub-globose, 2-3 cm. (%-l}4 inches) in diameter, 

 green. ^ 



Distribution. Pennsylvania to the mountains of North Carolina, 

 west to Indiana and south to Missouri. 



Specimens have been seen from the following counties of Indiana: 

 Allen (Beam) 1919; Daviess (Beam) 1919; Belaware (Beam) 1911; 

 Bubois (Beam) 1919; Fountain (Beam) 1919; Henry (Beam) 1917, 

 1919; Jay (Beam) 1919; Jennings (Beam); Knox (Beam) 1918, 1919; 

 Noble (Beam) 1919; Posey (Beam) 1919; Spencer (Beam) 1919; 

 Starke (Beam) 1911; Union (Beam) 1919; Vermillion (Beam) 1911. 



3. Malus ioensis (Wood) Britton. WESTERN CRAB APPLE. IOWA 

 CRAB APPLE. Plate 74. Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 4-10 cm. 

 (lJ^-4 inches) long, 2-8 cm. (%-3}4 inches), wide, obtuse or acute 

 at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, dentate-crenate or 

 doubly so, slightly pubescent above, becoming glabrous, dark green, 

 slightly rugose above, densely white-tomentose below, remaining so at 

 least along the veins; petioles 1.5-4 cm. (J^-l^ inches) long, densely 

 white-tomentose; corymbs 2-5 flowered, pedicels pubescent; calyx 

 densely white-tomentose, calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, densely 

 tomentose on both sides; flowers similar to those of Malus coronaria; 

 fruit globose, without angles, green, 2-3.5 cm. (%-l}4 inches) thick, 

 2-3 cm. (%-l^t inches) long. 



Distribution. Indiana, central Kentucky, Louisiana, Wisconsin, 

 southern Minnesota, eastern Kansas and Texas. A tree in habit, 

 similar to Malus glaucescens. 



Specimens have been seen from Allen (Beam) 1915; Benton (Beam) 

 1919; Cass (Beam) 1916; Baviess (Beam) 1919; Belaware (Beam) 

 1911; Floyd (Very) 1896; Huntington (Beam); Jasper (Beam) 1919; 

 Knox (Beam) 1917; Lake (Beam) 1919; Lagrange (Beam) 1915; La- 

 porte (Beam) 1913, 1919; Newton (Beam) 1919; Porter (Beam) 1915; 

 Posey (Beam) 1919; Putnam (Grimes); Sullivan (Beam) 1917, 1919; 

 Tippecanoe (Borner) 1900, (Beam) 1917; Vigo (Beam) 1917, 1919; 

 Warren (Beam) 1919; White (Beam) 1916; Whitley (Beam) 1919. 



