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A small tree sometimes 8 m. (25 feet) high, with spreading branches, 

 forming a flat or round crown. This species is intermediate between 

 Crus-galli and punctata and has been found as yet only in a region where 

 both these species are known. 



I have seen specimens from the following counties: Clark (Beam); 

 Floyd (Deam); Gibson (Schneck), (Beam); Hamilton (Mrs. Chas. C. 

 Beam) ; Knox (Schneck) ; Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam) ; Posey (Beam) ; 

 Vigo (Blatchley); Wells (Beam). 



3. Crataegus punctata Jacquin. LARGE-FRUITED THORN. BOTTED 

 HAW. Plate 79. Bark grayish-brown, scaly; leaves light grey, 2-5 

 cm. (%-4 inches) long, 1-5 cm. (%-2 inches) broad, dull gray-green 

 and markedly impressed-vein above, pubescent, becoming nearly 

 glabrous above when mature, acute or obtuse at the apex, sharply 

 cuneate at the base, serrate, doubly serrate or lobed at the apex, 

 subcoriaceous; petioles 1-2 cm. (j^g-% inch) long, slightly winged 

 above; corymbs tomentose or canescent, many flowered; flowers appear 

 in June, about 2 cm. (5/6 inch) wide; calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 entire; stamens about 20; anthers white or pink; styles and nutlets 

 usually 3 or 4; fruit ripens in October or November, green, yellow or 

 red, short-ellipsoidal, 1.2-2.5 cm. (^-1 inch) thick, flesh hard, thick; 

 calyx lobes spreading. 



Distribution. Quebec to Pennsylvania, southeastern Minnesota, 

 Iowa, Kentucky and south to the high Alleghenies. Well distributed 

 over Indiana. A small tree, sometimes 10 m. (35 feet) high, with dis- 

 tinctly horizontal branches and a broad, flat crown. 



Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Allen (Beam) ; 

 Bartholomew (Beam); Bearborn (Beam); Fulton (Beam); Gibson 

 (Beam); Grant (Beam); Hamilton (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam); Hendricks 

 (Beam); Howard (Beam); Jennings (Beam); Johnson (Beam); Marion 

 (Beam); Noble (Beam); Putnam (Grimes) ; Vermillion (Beam); Vigo 

 (Blatchley); Wayne (Beam); Wells (Beam). 



4. Crataegus Margaretta Ashe. JUDGE BROWN'S THORN. MRS. 

 ASHE'S THORN. Plate 80. Bark dark grayish-brown; spines curved, 

 2-4 cm. (%-!% inches) long; leaves oblong-obovate or ovate, some- 

 times broadly so, 2-6 cm. (%-2 finches) long, 2-4 cm. (%-lJ^ inches) 

 wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, 

 serrate or doubly serrate with 2 or 3 pairs of acute or obtuse lobes towards 

 the apex, glabrous when mature, dark green above, membranaceous; 

 petioles 1-3 cm. (^g-1^ inches) long, slightly winged; corymbs 

 slightly pubescent, becoming glabrous, 5-12 flowered; flowers appear in 

 May, 1.5-2 cm. (^-5/6 inch) wide; stamens about 20; anthers yellow; 

 styles and nutlets usually 2; calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, slightly 



