rhombic-ovate, 4-11 cm. (13^-43^ inches) long, 3-8 cm. (1^-3 inches 

 wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, finely and doubly serrate, those on 

 the vegetative shoots obtuse and more entire than the others, pube- 

 scent on both sides, becoming scabrate above, subcoriaceous, dull green 

 above; petioles about 2 cm. (% inch) long, wing margined, glandular 

 hairy; corymbs white-tomentose, many flowered; flowers appear in 

 June, about 1.5 cm. (^ inch) broad; stamens about 20; anthers 

 small, pink; styles and nutlets usually 2 or 3; calyx lobes lanceolate- 

 acuminate, glandular laciniate; fruit ripens in September, pyriform 

 to ellipsoidal, orange-red or red, 8-10 mm. (% inch) thick, flesh glu- 

 tinous; nutlets with deep pits in their inner faces; calyx lobes reflexed. 



Distribution. Central New York, northeastern New Jersey to 

 Minnesota and Missouri and south in the mountains to northern 

 Georgia. 



A large shrub or occasionally a tree 6 m. (20 feet) high, with ascend- 

 ing branches forming a broad crown. 



Specimens have been examined from the following counties; Boone 

 (Deam); Floyd (Deam); Hancock (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam); Harrison 

 (Beam); Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam); Posey (Beam); Putnam 

 (Grimes) ; Tippecanoe (Stanley Coulter) ; Wells (Beam) ; White (Beam) ; 

 Whitley (Beam). 



9. Crataegus chrysocarpa Ashe. (Crataegus Dodgei Sargent. 

 Crataegus rotundifolia, Borckhausen.) ROUND-LEAVED THORN. Plate 

 85. Bark dark red-brown, scaly; spines numerous, chestnut-brown, 

 curved, 2-5 cm. (1-2 inches) long; leaves ovate-orbicular or obovate, 

 3-6 cm. (134-234 inches) long, 2-6 cm. (%-2 14 inches) wide, acute 

 at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, doubly serrate with rather 

 coarse teeth and with 3 or 4 pairs of acute lobes, subcoriaceous, dark 

 yellow-green and shining above, slightly pubescent or glabrous; corymbs 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent; flowers 10-15 mm. ( 1 A~% inch) 

 wide; stamens 5-10; anthers light yellow; styles and nutlets usually 

 3-4; calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, usually entire, but glandular 

 margined; fruit depressed globose to short ovoid, about 10 mm. (Y^ 

 inch) thick, flesh soft; calyx lobes reflexed. 



Distribution. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, 

 south to Nebraska and Pennyslvania and in the mountains to North 

 Carolina and New Mexico. 



Round topped shrub or tree sometimes 8 meters (25 feet) high. 



Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Belaware and 

 Lagrange (Beam). 



