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brous above, the lobes narrow, acuminate, entire or sparingly glandular-dentate, glabrous 

 on the outer surface and puberulous on the inner surface; stamens 16-20; anthers light 

 yellow; styles usually 2 or 3. Fruit ripening in September and October, on long slender 

 pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, globose or subglobose, bright red or scarlet, 

 : y in diameter; flesh thin and mealy; calyx enlarged, with spreading or erect persistent 

 lobes; nutlets 2 or 3, with a high narrow ridge, i'-f 



Fig. 376 



A tree, sometimes 20 high, with a trunk 8'-9' in diameter, spreading branches form- 

 ing a broad flat-topped hea.d, and slender nearly straight branchlets, villcse at first, becom- 

 ing glabrous, pale reddish brown, ultimately ashy gray, and sometimes armed with.slender 

 straight spines l'-lj' long. 



Distribution. Low open Oak and Hickory woods near Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, 

 and Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. 



25. Crataegus Mohrii Beadl. 



Leaves obovate or rhombic, acute or acuminate, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the 

 entire base, and coarsely, occasionally doubly serrate above with straight or incurved teeth, 



Fig. 377 



