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Leaves obovate to rhombic, acute or rarely rounded at apex; flowers in wide 

 usually 9-12-flowered corymbs. 32. C. verruculosa. 



Leaves glabrous on the upper surface. 

 Corymbs slightly villose. 



Leaves obovate to rhombic, acute or rounded at apex; fruit globose, dark 



dull red. 33. C. sordida (C). 



Leaves oval to obovate, acute or acuminate at apex; fruit often rather longer 



than broad, bright canary-yellow. 34. C. brazoria (C). 



Corymbs densely villose; leaves obovate, acute, acuminate or rounded at apex; 



fruit subglobose, dark dull red. 35. C. dallasiana (C). 



Stamens 10. 



Anthers pale yellow; leaves obovate, acute or acuminate or rounded and short- 

 pointed at apex; fruit subglobose, pubescent at the ends, dull orange-red. 



36. C. Lettermanii (A). 



Anthers rose color; leaves oblong-obovate, acute or rounded at apex; fruit globose, 

 bright scarlet, slightly pruinose. 37. C. pratensis (A). 



26. Crateegus punctata Jacq. 



Leaves obovate, pointed or rounded at apex, gradually narrowed to the cuneate entire 

 base, sharply and often doubly serrate above the middle with minute teeth, and sometimes 

 more or less incisely lobed, thickly covered below with pale hairs and pilose above when 





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they unfold, about half grown when the flowers open from the middle of May until early in 

 June and then pilose on the midrib and veins below and nearly glabrous above, and at 

 maturity thick and firm, pale gray-green and glabrous on the upper surface, more or less 

 villose on the lower surface, 2 '-3' long, and f '-If wide, with a broad prominent midrib, and 

 primary veins deeply impressed on the upper surface; turning bright orange or orange and 

 scarlet in the autumn; petioles stout, at first villose or tomentose, becoming pubescent or 

 glabrous, '-f in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots usually incisely lobed, and 

 often 3'-4' long and If -2' wide. Flowers f -f ' in diameter, on slender villose pedicels, in 

 tomentose or villose many-flowered compact corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, villose 

 or tomentose, the lobes narrow, acute, nearly entire or minutely glandular-serrate, villose 

 on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers rose color or yellow; styles 5, surrounded at base 

 by conspicuous tufts of white hairs. Fruit ripening and falling in October, on elongated 

 nearly glabrous pedicels, in drooping clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, truncate at 

 the ends dull red or bright yellow (var. aurea Ait.) and usually agreeing with the anthers 

 in color, marked by numerous small white dots, f-1' long; nutlets 5, about \' long. 



