ROSACILE 



477 



the middle to the end of April and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by 

 short lustrous white hairs and hoary-tomentose below, and at maturity thin, dark yellow- 

 green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale and tomentose or pubescent on the lower 

 surface, particularly on the stout midrib and 4 or 5 pairs of prominent primary veins, 3'-4' 

 long, and 2|'-3' wide; petioles slender, more or less wing-margined at the apex, glandu- 

 lar, hoary-tomentose early in the season, becoming sparingly villose in the autumn, 1|'-1^' 

 in length. Flowers f ' in diameter, on slender tomentose pedicels, in broad many-flowered 

 hoary-tomentose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, thickly coated with long densely 

 matted white hairs, the lobes small, acuminate, glandular-serrate, villose; stamens 20; 

 anthers small, rose color; styles 5, surrounded at base by a broad ring of snow-white hairs. 

 Fruit ripening the middle of October, on stout villose pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short- 

 oblong, rounded and villose at the ends, crimson or reddish yellow, lustrous, marked by 

 small pale dots, -' -2' in diameter; calyx prominent, with a short tomentose tube and much 

 enlarged coarsely glandular-serrate hairy erect incurved lobes often deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thick, orange-colored, with an astringent subacid flavor; nutlets 5, thin, 

 rounded and slightly grooved on the back, fV~i' l n g- 



A tree, sometimes 25 high, with a trunk often a foot in diameter, covered with thick 

 dark brown furrowed bark, large spreading and ascending branches forming an open irreg- 

 ular head, and stout branchlets covered at first with long matted white hairs, light orange- 

 brown, lustrous and puberulous at the end of their first season, becoming ashy gray or 

 light grayish brown the following year, and armed with many stout nearly straight dark 

 purple shining spines usually about 2^' long. 



Distribution. Dry upland woods, near Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas; common. 



82. Crateegus texana Buckl. 



Leaves broad-ovate, acute or rarely rounded at apex, broadly concave-cuneate at base, 

 coarsely doubly glandular-serrate above, and usually divided above the middle into 4 or 5 

 pairs of broad acute lobes, covered above when they unfold with short soft pale hairs and 



Fig. 434 



below with a thick coat of hoary tomentum, more than half grown when the flowers open 

 late in March, and at maturity thick and firm, dark green and lustrous above, pale and 

 pubescent or tomentose below, particularly on the stout midrib, primary veins, prominent 

 secondary veins and reticulate veinlets, 3'-4' long, 2|'-3' wide; petioles stout, deeply 

 grooved, more or less winged above, at first tomentose, becoming nearly glabrous, '-f ' in 

 length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots sometimes truncate or slightly cordate at the 

 broad base, more deeply lobed, and frequently 3' long and wide. Flowers f ' in diameter, on 



