HOSACE.E 



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at the end of October, on long slender slightly hairy pedicels, in erect or spreading few- 

 fruited clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded and slightly hairy at the ends, orange-red, 

 marked by large pale dots, and about \' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with spreading 

 lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle and villose toward the apex; flesh thin, 

 yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the ends, broader at apex than at base, 

 rounded and only slightly grooved on the back, \' long. 



A tree, sometimes 30 high, with a tall trunk covered with dark brown bark broken into 

 small closely appressed plate-like scales, large spreading branches forming a wide irreg- 

 ular head, and stout slightly zigzag branchlets clothed when they first appear with hoary 

 tomentum, dull gray-brown, marked by small pale lenticels and slightly pubescent at the 

 end of their first season and dark gray the following year, and unarmed or armed with 

 occasional slender straight chestnut-brown spines I'-lj' long. 



Distribution. In dense woods on the rich bottom-lands of Red River near Fulton, 

 Hempstead County, and near Texarkana, Miller County, Arkansas. 



73. Crataegus limaria Sarg. 



Cratcegus Mackensenii Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute, concave-cuneate or rounded at base, coarsely often doubly serrate 

 with broad straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 3 or 4 pairs of small acute 

 lateral lobes, not more than a quarter grown when the flowers open early in April and then 



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thin, yellow-green and covered above with short white hairs and thickly coated below with 

 hoary tomentum, and at maturity light green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale and 

 iomentose on the lower surface, 2|'-3' long, and l'-2' wide, with a stout midrib and thin 

 primary veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at apex, covered when they first 

 appear with long matted white hairs, villose through the season, and l'-l' in length; leaves 

 at the end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, rounded or cordate at the wide base, more 

 deeply lobed, and often 4' long and broad. Flowers opening early in April, f'-l' in diame- 

 ter, on long slender pedicels coated with matted white hairs, in compact 15-20-flowered 

 villose corymbs; calyx-tube broadly obconic, thickly covered with white hairs, the lobes 

 gradually narrowed from the base, wide, acuminate, laciniately glandular-serrate, villose; 

 stamens 20; anthers white; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale tomen- 

 tum. Fruit ripening in October, on long stout erect or spreading hairy pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, ellipsoidal to ovoid or short-oblong, rounded at apex, truncate at base, 



