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pink, fV I' wide; stamens about one third shorter than the petals; styles slightly shorter 

 than the stamens, united at base and villose below for a third of their length. Fruit de- 

 pressed-globose, with a shallow basal cavity and a shallow slightly corrugated cavity at 

 apex, slightly viscid, f'-l' high and I'-lf ' wide. 



Fig. 344 



A tree, 15-30 high, with a trunk up to 6' or 7' in diameter, thick branches forming a 

 broad often symmetrical head, and stout branchlets red and glabrous when they first ap- 

 pear, becoming reddish brown and lustrous at the end of their first season, and dull red- 

 brown and armed with occasional stout spines or unarmed the following year, the vigorous 

 shoots more or less pubescent early in the season, becoming glabrous, or often densely pubes- 

 cent until autumn. Winter-buds red-brown, glabrous, or slightly pubescent. Bark dark 

 brown and broken into thin closely appressed scales. 



Distribution. Missouri (Allenton, St. Louis County, and Campbell, Dunklin County); 

 northern Kentucky (Fordsville, Ohio County) ; Tennessee, without locality: North Carolina 

 (Biltmore, Buncombe County, near Highlands, Macon County, up to altitudes of 3500, and 

 Abbottsburg, Bladen County) ; Georgia (Dillard, Rabun County, near Augusta, Richmond 

 County); Florida (River Junction, Gadsden County). 



8. Malus ioensis Britt. Crab Apple. 



Leaves elliptic to ovate or oblong-obovate, acute, acuminate or rounded at apex, cuneate 

 or rounded at the narrow base, crenately serrate, and often slightly lobed with acute or 

 rounded lobes, hoary -tomentose below and floccose-pubescent above when they unfold, and 

 at maturity thick and firm, dark green, lustrous and glabrous above, pale yellow-green and 

 tomentose or nearly glabrous below, 2'-4' long, l'-l|' wide, with a slender midrib and 

 primary veins; turning yellow in the autumn before falling; petioles slender, hoary- tomen- 

 tose in early spring, becoming pubescent or nearly glabrous, f'-l' in length; leaves at the 

 end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate to oblong-ovate, acute, rounded at the broad or narrow 

 base, often deeply lobed, covered below through the season with floccose easily detached 

 tomentum, often 4' or 5' long and 3' or 4' wide, with a thick midrib and primary veins, and 

 stout hoary-tomentose petioles f'-l' in length. Flowers l|'-2' in diameter, on villose pu- 

 bescent pedicels l'-l|' long, in 3-6-flowered clusters; calyx covered with hoary tomentum, 

 the lobes narrow, rather longer than the tube; petals obovate, gradually narrowed below 

 into a long slender claw, rose color or white, about |' wide; stamens shorter than the pet- 

 als; styles 5, united at base, covered below for a third of their length with long white hairs. 



