444 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



deep rose color; styles usually 5. Fruit on short pedicels in many-fruited drooping clus- 

 ters, globose or subglobose, orange-red, j' 3' in diameter; nutlets 5, pointed at the ends, 

 slightly ridged on the back, about ' long. 



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A tree, 25-30 high, with a tall trunk 12'-18' in diameter covered with close pale gray 

 bark, spreading and erect branches forming a broad rather open irregular head, and slender 

 glabrous red-brown branchlets, ashy gray in their second season, and unarmed or armed 

 with straight slender chestnut-brown spines. 



Distribution. River banks, low wet woods and borders of swamps; Georgia-coast 

 region, near Dorchester, Liberty County, in the neighborhood of Savannah, and on- 

 the Ogeechee River at Fort Argyle, Chatham County (type station); near Augusta, 

 Richmond County, Georgia. 



48. Crataegus nitida Sarg. 



Leaves lanceolate to oblong-obovate, acuminate, abruptly or gradually narrowed and 

 cuneate at the entire base, coarsely serrate above with straight or incurved glandular teeth, 



Fig. 400 



and often more or less divided into 2 or 3 pairs of broad acute lobes, dark red and slightly 

 villose along the upper side of the midrib with scattered caducous hairs when they unfold, 



