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A slender tree, 20-iJ.5 high, with a tajl stem 6'-8' in diameter, covered with pale flaky 

 bark, erect or slightly spreading branches forming a narrow head, and slender straight or 

 slightly zigzag branchlets chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first season, and dull 

 gray-brown the following year, and armed with stout straight gray spines |'-lf in length. 



Distribution. Low river banks, the borders of swamps and in depressions filled with 

 water during most of the year; banks of the Ogeechee River near Meldrim, Effingham 

 County, and near Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia; swamp of the Combahee River near 

 Yemassee, Hampton County, and near Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina; pond holes 

 eight or nine miles west of Newbern, Craven County, North Carolina; passing into var. 

 maloides Sarg. with young leaves tinged with red and villose along the upper side of the 

 midrib, those at the end of vigorous shoots sometimes broad-obovate, rounded and divided 

 at apex into 3 short rounded lobes, longer acuminate calyx-lobes and dark red anthers. 

 Wet prairies, Volusia County, Florida; and into var. cerasoides Sarg. differing in the 

 presence of short white hairs on the upper surface of the young leaves, in the longer acumin- 

 ate calyx-lobes slightly villose on the inner surface and often minutely serrate near the 

 middle, in the dark rose-colored anthers, and the late ripening fruit up to \' in diameter, on 

 drooping pedicels often \' in length. An arborescent shrub with a round-topped head 

 30-40 across, numerous large erect and spreading stems often 30 high, covered with 

 smooth pale bark separating into thin plate-like scales, in falling disclosing the dull red in- 

 ner bark, and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets armed with straight slender spines 

 \'-\\' in length. Fruit ripening late in July and in August. Low, wet, often inundated 

 prairies near Sewall, Valusia County, Bradfordville, Leon County, Jasper, Hamilton 

 County, and Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida. A form of this variety growing in 

 Valusia County (f. luculenta Sarg.) differs in the more numerous hairs on the upper 

 surface of the young leaves, in the rather smaller flowers, smaller and less juicy fruit ripen- 

 ing at the end of June or early in July, and in its often arborescent habit. 



39. Crataegus rufula Sarg. 

 Cratoegus cestivalis Torr. & Gray in part, not Mespilus cestivalis Walt. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, acute or rounded at apex, gradually narrowed, cuneate and 

 entire at base, finely crenately glandular-serrate, and often slightly lobed above the middle; 



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with short rounded lobes, covered above with soft pale hairs and whitish tomentose below 

 when they unfold, and at maturity thick, dark green, lustrous and glabrous or slightly 



