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from its nearest relative, Crataegus coccinea, by its glandular petioles, its very gland- 

 ular bractlets and calyx lobes, and its stout long spines. 

 Type locality not ascertained. 



Crataegus sargenti Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28 : 407. 1899.' 



An intricately branched tree rarely over 18 feet high, or more frequently a large 

 shrub from 6 to 15 feet high, with one or several stems covered with an ashy gray, 

 more or less scaly bark; branches spreading, armed with straight or curved spines 

 Ito2 inches long; leaves thin to subcoriaceous, slightly pubescent when young, 

 soon smooth, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or round-cordate, 1 to 4 inches long and 

 from ^ to 2 inches wide, acute, rounded, or abruptly contracted at the base into a 

 wing-margined petiole, irregularly doubly serrate and incisely lobed, the serratures 

 tipped with minute glands; stipules linear-lanceolate, glandular, or on vigorous 

 shoots foliaceous and lunate; flowers in a few few-ilowered, more or less pubescent 

 corymbs, stamens normally 20, pistils 3 to 5; fruit globose or depressed-globose, 

 nearly ^ inch in diameter, yellow t > orange, with a thin, firm flesh, and including 3 

 to 5 bony, thick-walled nutlets. 



C. sargenti is a most distinct and showy species, belonging to a very natural group 

 which in the herbaria are preserved under the names of C. rotundifolia, C. glanditlosa, 

 and C. coccinea, titles which correctly belong to widely different plants. 



Carolinian area. Northern Georgia (Rome) to southeastern Tennessee. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky woods and bluffs. DeKalb County (Beadle). 

 Flowers about 1st of May when the leaves are almost fully grown. Fruit ripens 

 and falls about the middle of September. 



Type locality : " Near Valleyhead, Ala." 



Crataegus boyntoni Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28 : 409. 1899. 



A tree seldom more than 18 feet high, or frequently a large branching shrub from 

 6 to 12 feet high, the trunk from 6 to 9 feet in length and 4 to 8 inches in diameter, 

 with stout ascending branches which form a narrow, occasionally a flat-topped head, 

 the spines straight or curved, 1J to 2| inches long. Leaves yellowish green, paler 

 beneath, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs along the midrib and larger veins, 

 broadly ovate or oval, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base into the 

 margined glandular petiole, or on vigorous shoots deltoid-ovate, sharply and irreg- 

 ularly serrate, doubly serrate, or incisely 5 to 7 lobed; stipules linear, glandular, 

 caducous, or on strong shoots foliaceous and lunate, glandular-serrate ; flowers large, 

 from 9 lines to nearly 1 inch in diameter, borne on glabrous pedicels with one or 

 two glandular bractlets, in short 4 to 10 flowered corymbs; stamens 10, anthers light 

 yellow ; pistils 3 to 5 ; fruit dull yellowish green to russet-red, depressed-globose, 

 angled, about 14- inches long and 8 lines wide. 



Closely related to the last, but distinguished by the many-flowered glabrous 

 corymbs and shorter stamens, and by the different habit of growth. Many speci- 

 mens are preserved in herbaria, the greater part of which are also labeled C. coccinca, 

 C. glandulosa, or C. rotundifolia. C. rotundifolia of Britton and Brown's Illustrated 

 Flora is in part to be referred to this species. (The material collected by the writer 

 near Greenville, Ala., is most likely to be united with it, which would extend its 

 southern range to the Louisiana area. Mohr.) 



Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Delaware to Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region ; banks of streams, and even in the shallow dry soil of 

 uplands; copses and fields. Flowers before the middle of May; fruit ripens and 

 falls early in October. 



Type locality: " Biltmore, N. C." 



Crataegus raollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele, Linnaea, 21:569. 1848. DOWNY HAW. 



Crataegus coccinea var. mollis Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 465. 1840. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 165. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 107. 



MEXICO. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England ; Massachusetts west to Michigan, 

 Minnesota, and Iowa, south to Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Upper division Coast Pine belt. Rich wooded banks. 

 Cullnian County. Hale County, Gallion. Clark County. Jackson County (Dr. 

 Denny}, April 12, 1852. Flowers white, April; fruit ripe October, crimson. A small 

 tree, 20 to 25 feet high, sparsely scattered in the valleys of the mountain region, and 

 more frequent in the prairies. 



! The descriptions of this and following species of Crataegus, with the accompany- 

 ing notes, are mainly drawn from C. D. Beadle, Studies in Crataegus, Bot. Gazette. 

 vol. 28, pp. 405 to 417. 1899. 



