ROSACE.E 449 



Flowers cup-shaped, \' in diameter, on long slender pedicels thickly coated with matted 

 white hairs, in broad lax many-flowered compound hairy corymbs; calyx-tube narrow \y 

 obconic, villose, the lobes linear, acuminate, entire, slightly villose, tipped with minute 

 dark glands; stamens usually 10, occasionally 12, 15, or 20; anthers small, deep bright red; 

 styles 5. Fruit ripening the middle of October, on slender pubescent pedicels, in drooping 

 many-fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, bright 

 orange-red, lustrous, marked by occasional large pale dots, about \' long; calyx prominent, 



Fig. 405 



with a short villose tube, and spreading erect hairy lobes often deciduous from the ripe 

 fruit; nutlets 5, thin, acute at the narrow ends, rounded and sometimes slightly grooved on 

 the back, about j\' long. 



An unarmed tree, sometimes 25 high, with a tall trunk 8'-12' in diameter, covered with 

 light or dark brown bark separating freely into thin narrow scales, stout spreading branches 

 forming a broad flat-topped handsome head, and slender nearly straight branchlets coated 

 until after the flowering time with thick hoary tomentum, bright red-brown and puberu- 

 lous during their first season, becoming light or dark dull reddish brown the following year. 



Distribution. Common in low woods in rich moist soil near Fulton, Hempstead County, 

 Arkansas. 



V. PRUINOS-E. 



CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Stamens 20. 



Anthers rose color. 



Leaves elliptic; fruit subglobose, green and pruinose when fully grown, becoming dark 



purple-red and very lustrous ; anthers large, deep rose color. 54. C. pruinosa (A, C) . 



leaves ovate, acute or acuminate; fruit short-oblong, dull russet-green; anthers small, 



light rose color. 55. C. georgiana (C). 



Anthers white; leaves ovate, acute, cordate at base; fruit broader than high, scarlet, 



pruinose, becoming lustrous. 56. C. callicarpa (A). 



Stamens 10; anthers dark rose color; leaves broad-ovate, acuminate; fruit subglobose, green 



more or less tinged with red, pruinose. 57. C. dismncta (A.) 



54. Crataegus pruinosa K. Koch. 



Leaves elliptic, acute, broadly or acutely cuneate at the entire base, irregularly and often 

 doubly serrate above with glandular straight or incurved teeth, and divided in 3 or 4 pairs 



