ROSACES 



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tube narrowly obconic, more or less villose, the lobes elongated, acute, coarsely serrate 

 with stipitate dark red glands, villose on the inner surface; stamens usually 10, occasionally 

 12-15; anthers small, dark rose color; styles 2 or 3. Fruit on slender pedicels often \' long, 



Fig. 356 



in broad many-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, full and rounded at 

 the ends, covered until nearly fully grown with long soft pale hairs, and at maturity orange- 

 red marked by many small dark dots, '-!' long; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, erect and 

 incurved, coarsely glandular-serrate above the middle, dark red on the upper side toward 

 the base; flesh very thick, firm and hard, pale green; nutlets 2 or 3, \' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk 10 / -12 / in diameter, covered with dark brown scaly 

 bark, stout wide-spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical round-topped rather 

 open head, and stout branchlets covered at first with soft matted pale hairs, soon glabrous, 

 light orange-green, becoming ashy gray in their second season, and armed with numerous 

 very slender straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 2'-2^' long. 



Distribution. Rich woodlands near Allenton, St. Louis County, Missouri, and on the 

 bottom-lands of the Mississippi River, St. Claire County, Illinois. 



5. Crataegus regalis Beadl. 



Leaves oval to elliptic, acute or acuminate at apex, gradually narrowed and concave- 

 cuneate at the entire base, and coarsely, often doubly serrate above with acute straight or 



Fig. 357 



