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styles 3-5. Fruit ripening and falling early in September, on slender pedicels, in few- 

 fruited drooping clusters, subglobose, scarlet, covered with a glaucous bloom, '-f ' in di- 

 ameter; flesh soft, sweet, and edible; nutlets 8-5, narrowed and acute at the ends, prom- 

 inently ridged on the back with a high broadly grooved ridge, i'- T V lon g- 



A tree, sometimes 20 high, with a trunk 7'-S' in diameter, covered with dark gray or 

 brown scaly bark, ascending or slightly spreading branches forming a narrow irregular head, 

 and stout glabrous branchlets dark chestnut-brown in their first season becoming dark gray, 

 and armed with numerous slender bright chestnut-brown lustrous ultimately gray spines 

 2'-2|' long. 



Distribution. Open woods and the borders of fields and roads, western North Carolina, 

 usually at altitudes of 2000-3000 above the sea. 



VIII. MOLLES. 

 CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Stamens 20. 



Anthers pale yellow or white (rose color in 71). 



Leaves broad and rounded, truncate or cordate at base; fruit subglobose to short- 

 oblong or obovoid, red, crimson or scarlet. 

 Mature leaves glabrous on the upper surface. 

 Leaves thin. 



Fruit subglobose to short-oblong, scarlet, ripening in August and September. 



68. C. mollis (A). 



Fruit obovoid to short-oblong, dark red, ripening in October. 69. C. sera (A). 

 Leaves subcoriaceous; fruit short-oblong to obovoid, crimson, ripening in October 

 and November. 70. C. arkansana (C). 



Mature leaves scabrate on the upper surface; fruit depressed-globose, red, ripening 

 in August and September. 71. C. gravida (A). 



Leaves broad-cuneate or rounded at base, acute or acuminate, scabrate on the upper 



surface at maturity. 

 Fruit red. 



Leaves villose below at maturity on midrib and veins, those at the end of vigorous 

 shoots cuneate at base; flowers in usually 7-12-flowered corymbs; fruit short- 

 oblong, orange-red. 72. C. invisa (C). 

 Leaves hoary-tomentose below at maturity, those at the end of vigorous shoots 

 rounded, cordate or abruptly cuneate at the broad base; flowers in 15-20- 

 flowered corymbs; fruit ellipsoidal, ovoid, short-oblong or subglobose, crimson. 



73. C. limaria (C). 



Fruit bright canary yellow, subglobose; leaves villose below at maturity elliptic to 

 ovate, oval or slightly obovate. 74. C. viburnifolia (C). 



Leaves narrowed at base. 



Mature leaves glabrous on the upper surface; fruit short-oblong to subglobose. 

 Leaves oblong-obovate or oval. 75. C. Berlandieri (C). 



Leaves elliptic to ovate or slightly obovate. 76. C. meridionalis (C). 



Mature leaves scabrate on the upper surface; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, red. 

 Leaves ovate to oval; flowers in 3-10-flowered corymbs; calyx-lobes glabrous. 



77. C. Treleasei (C). 

 Leaves ovate; flowers in many-flowered corymbs; calyx-lobes villose. 



78. C. canadensis. 

 Anthers rose color. 

 Leaves broad at base. 



Mature leaves smooth on the upper surface. 



Leaves thick, ovate, acute at apex; fruit short-oblong to obovoid, bright cherry 

 red. 79. C. corusca (A). 



