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brous pedicels, in erect few-fruited clusters, ellipsoidal, rounded at the ends, bright cherry- 

 red, lustrous, marked by occasional large dark dots, about f ' long; calyx only slightly 



Fig. 41 7 



enlarged, with small nearly triangular villose spreading lobes mostly deciduous before the 

 fruit ripens; flesh thick, orange color; nutlets 3-5, thin, narrowed at the ends, only 

 slightly ridged on the rounded back, j\' long. 



A slender tree, 25-30 high, with a tall trunk 4 '-5' in diameter, covered with pale scaly 

 bark, small short branches forming a narrow head, and slender branchlets dark olive-green 

 and villose when they first appear, becoming light red-brown and glabrous during their first 

 summer, and ultimately dull light gray, and armed with thin straight bright chestnut- 

 brown lustrous spines f'-lf ' long. 



Distribution. Low rich forest-glades near Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas. 



66. Crataegus depilis Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded or broad-cuneate and often unsymmetrical 

 at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and often 



Fig. 418 



divided into 4 or 5 pairs of short acute lobes, when they unfold deeply tinged with red and 

 covered above with fine short caducous hairs, nearly half grown when the flowers open 



