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pale dots, f'-l' in diameter; calyx small, with spreading reflexed lobes slightly villose 

 toward the apex and often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; 

 nutlets 5, rounded and very slightly grooved on the back, about f ' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a tall trunk 4'-5' in diameter, covered with nearly black 

 deeply furrowed bark, erect branches, and nearly straight branchlets dark green tinged 



Fig. 432 



with red and slightly villose when they first appear, bright red-brown and lustrous at the 

 end of their first season, becoming dark dull reddish brown the following year, and unarmed. 

 or armed with slender nearly straight bright chestnut-brown shining spines usually about 

 1' long. 



Distribution. Banks of the Desperes River, South St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri; 

 not common. 



81. Crataegus induta Sarg. Turkey Apple. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, acute, cuneate, rounded or rarely truncate at the broad entire 

 base, coarsely doubly serrate above with glandular teeth, and slightly and irregularly 

 divided into broad acute lateral lobes, about a third grown when the flowers open front 



Fig. 433 



