ROSACE^E 



457 



Corymbs glabrous. 

 Leaves ovate; anthers pale rose color; fruit subglobose to broad-obovoid, dark red. 



66. C. depilis (A). 

 Leaves ovate: stamens 15-20; anthers dark rose color; fruit subglobose. 



67. C. basilica (A). 



61 . Crataegus apiomorpha Sarg. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded or rarely cuneate at the entire often unsym- 

 metrical base, finely doubly serrate above with slender glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of triangular acute lobes, about half grown when the 

 flowers open early in May and then membranaceous, light yellow-green and tinged with 

 red or bronze color, and covered above with short white hairs and pale and glabrous below, 

 and at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark blue-green and smooth and lustrous or 



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sometimes dull and scabrate on the upper surface, pale blue-green on the lower surface, 

 \%'-2\' long, and If'-l^' wide, with a stout midrib, and primary veins arching obliquely to 

 the point of the lobes; petioles slender, slightly winged at the apex, often sparingly glandu- 

 lar, f'-l' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots often 3' long. Flowers f'-f' in 

 diameter, on short villose or glabrous pedicels, in compact many-flowered usually hairy 

 corymbs, their bracts and bractlets linear to oblong-obovate, glandular-serrate with stipi- 

 tate dark red or purple glands, turning red before falling, mostly persistent until after the 

 flowers open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes abruptly narrowed at base, 

 slender, acuminate, entire or sparingly glandular; stamens 5-10, usually 5; anthers pink; 

 styles 3-5, surrounded at base by tufts of pale hairs. Fruit ripening early in September and 

 soon falling, on slender pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, obovoid or rarely short- 

 oblong, bright reddish purple, marked by small scattered pale dots, f '-' long, and \'-\' in 

 diameter; calyx much enlarged, with spreading lobes, their tips mostly deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, juicy, pleasantly acid; nutlets 3-5, thin, rounded and ridged 

 on the back with a low ridge, about I' long. 



A tree, sometimes 25 high, with a trunk 6' in diameter and 3-6 long, covered with 

 dark gray bark separating into thin plates, in falling disclosing the yellow inner bark, 

 numerous ascending branches forming an oblong or pyramidal crown, and slender branch- 

 lets dark dull red-brown during their first season, becoming dark gray-brown the following 

 year, and unarmed, or armed with slender nearly straight dull red-brown ultimately ashy 

 gray spines 1'-!$' long; or often shrubby, with numerous stems spreading into small 

 clumps. 



