ROSACES 427 



30. Crataegus fastosa Sarg. 



Leaves broadly oval to ovate, rounded or acute at apex, concave-cuneate or rounded at 

 the entire base, and coarsely doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, when they 

 unfold covered above with long pale hairs and provided below with large tufts of snow- 

 white tomentum in the axils of the primary veins, when the flowers open from the 20th to 

 the 25th of April dark yellow-green and nearly glabrous on the upper surface and still 

 tomentose in the axils of the veins below, and at maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, yellow- 

 green and lustrous above, pale yellow-green below, If '-2' long, and l'-2' wide, with a prom- 

 inent light yellow midrib deeply impressed on the upper side, and usually 3-5 pairs of 

 primary veins; petioles slender, at first densely villose, becoming puberulous, \'-\' in 

 length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots occasionally lobed with broad acute lobes. 

 Flowers about f in diameter, on slender pedicels, in compact many-flowered glabrous 

 corymbs, with large conspicuous oblong-obovate and acute to lanceolate coarsely glandular- 

 serrate bracts and bractlets usually persistent until after the petals fall; calyx broadly 

 obconic, the lobes abruptly narrowed at base, slender, acuminate, coarsely glandular- 



Fig. 382 



serrate, glabrous on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers 

 pale yellow; styles 5, surrounded at base by a broad ring of pale tomentum. Fruit 

 ripening from the middle to the end of October, on thin reddish pedicels, in few-fruited 

 drooping clusters, subglobose. to short-oblong, dull orange-red, marked by large pale dots, 

 f ' in diameter; calyx enlarged, with spreading serrate lobes villose on the upper side, mostly 

 deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow-green; nutlets 3-5, thin, narrowed at the 

 ends, obscurely ridged on the back with a broad low often grooved ridge, about T V long. 



A tree, 18-20 high, with a short trunk 8'-12' in diameter, covered with dark brown or 

 nearly black scaly bark, small ascending branches forming an irregular open head, and 

 slender nearly straight branchlets, dark orange-green tinged with red when they first appear, 

 becoming before autumn bright reddish brown and very lustrous, and dull reddish brown 

 the following year, and armed with numerous stout nearly straight bright chestnut-brown 

 shining spines l^'-2' long. 



Distribution. Low woods near Fulton, Hemstead County, Arkansas; not common. 



31. Crataegus silvestris Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, oval or rarely obovate, acuminate, concave-cuneate or rounded at the 

 entire base, sharply doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of small acuminate lobes, nearly fully grown when the 

 flowers open at the end of May and then roughened above by short white hairs, and villose 



