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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



3-5-flowered clusters; calyx-tube short and broad, glabrous, the lobes about as long as the 

 tube, glabrous on the outer surface, thickly covered with hoary tomentum on the inner 

 surface; petals oblong-obovate, gradually narrowed below into a long claw, rose-colored, 

 about I' wide; stamens shorter than the petals; styles 5, united at base, villose below the 

 middle. Fruit depressed-globose, pale yellow-green, f '-!' in diameter. 



A tree, rarely 30 high, with a short trunk 8'-10' in diameter, rigid spreading or rarely 

 slender and pendulous (var. pendula Rehd.) branches forming a broad open head, and 

 young branchlets clothed at first with pale caducous pubescence, soon glabrous, in their 

 first winter brown slightly tinged with red, and in their second year light brown and 

 marked by occasional orange-colored lenticels. Winter-buds jV long, chestnut-brown, 



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slightly pubescent. Bark |' J ' thick, dark reddish brown, and divided by deep longitudi- 

 nal fissures into narrow ridges broken on the surface into small persistent plate-like scales. 

 Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, light brown tinged with red, with thick yellow sapwood; 

 occasionally employed for levers, the handles of tools and other small objects. The fruit 

 is used for preserves. 



Distribution. Southeastern Virginia hi the neighborhood of the coast, southward to 

 western Florida, and through southern Alabama and Mississippi to western Louisiana (near 

 Winnfield, Winn County); in the Carolinas and Georgia, ranging inland to the Appala- 

 chian foothills and in Mississippi to the neighborhood of luka, Tishomingo County in the 

 northeastern corner of the state; in southern Illinois (Pope and Johnson Counties. E. J. 

 Palmer) . 



7. Malus bracteata Rehd. 



Leaves elliptic-ovate to oblong-ovate, acute, on flowering branchlets sometimes obtusish 

 at apex, cuneate or rounded at base, serrate or incisely serrate, sometimes slightly lobed 

 near the base, covered below with floccose tomentum when they unfold, soon glabrous, and 

 at maturity thin, bright yellow-green and lustrous above, light green below, l|'-3' long, 

 I'-l^' wide; petioles glabrous, reddish like the under side of the midrib, |'-1' in length; 

 leaves at the end of vigorous shoots ovate, acute, cuneate at base, usually lobed with 4 or 

 5 pairs of short acute or rounded lobes, more thickly tomentose w r hen they unfold, at ma- 

 turity thicker, glabrous above, more or less pubescent below, often 3'-3^' long and 2'-2|' 

 wide, with a stout midrib and petiole. Flowers I'-lj' in diameter, on slender glabrous 

 or nearly glabrous pedicels, in 3-5-flowered clusters, with subulate bractlets i' |' long, 

 often persistent until after the flowers open; calyx-tube glabrous, the lobes slightly longer 

 than the tube, villose on the inner surface: petals oval, narrowed into a slender claw, deep 



