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petals contracted into a long narrow claw, glabrous, white or rose color, \' wide; stamens 

 shorter than the petals; styles 5, densely villose below the middle. Fruit on slender droop- 

 ing pedicels about I' long, subglobose, l'-l|' wide. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk 12'-1.5' in diameter, spreading spinescent branches 

 forming an open pyramidal head, and slender branchlets slightly pubescent or nearly gla- 



Fig. 342 



brous when they first appear, becoming reddish brown at the end of their first season and 

 ultimately gray-brown. Bark of the trunk brownish gray, divided by shallow longitudinal 

 fissures and separating into thin plates. 



Distribution. Northeastern Pennsylvania (Scranton, Lackawanna County) to the 

 western and southwestern parts of the state, and southward to Randolph and Greenbrier 

 Counties, West Virginia, Pulaski County (on Peak Mountain), Virginia, and to the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina up to altitudes of 3200, and westward to northeastern Kentucky, 

 through southern Ohio, eastern Indiana (Delaware County) and southern Illinois (Rich- 

 land, Jackson, Gallatin and Pope Counties); Missouri (Jackson and Wayne Counties). 



C. Malus angustifolia Michx. Crab Apple. 



Leaves elliptic to oblong-obovate, rounded or acute and apiculate at apex, gradually 

 narrowed and cuneate at base, and crenately serrate, hoary-tomentose below and sparingly 

 villose above when they unfold, soon glabrous, or occasionally pubescent on the midrib 

 below, and at maturity subcoriaceous dull green on the upper and light green on the lower 

 surface, l'-2' long, \'-\' wide; turning brown in drying; petioles slender, at first villose, 

 soon glabrous, '-f in length; stipules linear, rose-colored, \' long; leaves at the end of vig- 

 orous shoots ovate, oblong-ovate or elliptic, usually lobed with numerous short acute lobes, 

 or coarsely serrate, usually rounded at apex, broad-cuneate at base, at maturity glabrous, 

 or slightly floccose-pubescent below, especially on the midrib and veins, 2'-3' long, l'-2' 

 wide, with stout often rose-colored glabrous or pubescent petioles. Flowers about V in diam- 

 eter, very fragrant, on slender glabrous or rarely puberulous pedicels, f'-l' long, in mostly 



