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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



I'-l \' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots ovate, acuminate, rounded or cuneate 

 at the broad base, more coarsely serrate, usually laterally lobed with short broad acuminate 

 lobes, 3'-4' long, and 2|'-3' wide. Flowers f ' to nearly 1' in diameter, on short pedicels 

 densely covered like the narrow obconic calyx-tube and the compact 5-10-flowered corymb 

 with long matted white hairs; calyx-lobes slender, long-acuminate, minutely glandular- 

 serrate, slightly villose; stamens 5-10, usually 10; anthers rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded 

 at base by a broad ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening in September, on slender droop- 

 ing pubescent pedicels, subglobose, orange-red, \'-\' in diameter, the calyx prominent with 

 a short tube and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh thin, soft and yellow; nutlets 3-5, 

 rounded at base, narrowed and rounded at apex, slightly grooved on the back, about \' long. 



Fig. 445 



A tree, 15-18 high, with a trunk sometimes 1 in diameter, spreading branches forming 

 a broad flat or round-topped head, and stout zigzag branchlets coated when they first 

 appear with matted white hairs, reddish brown, pubescent or puberulous during their 

 first season and gray the following year, and armed with few or many slender straight 

 purple lustrous spines l'-2f in length, sometimes persistent and compound on old trunks. 



Distribution. Rich alluvial soil; in the neighborhood of Noel, McDonald County, 

 Missouri; common. 



IX. COCCINE^. 



Flabellatce Sarg. 



CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Stamens 20; leaves yellow-green and scabrate above. 



Leaves ovate; anthers deep rose-purple; fruit obovoid to short-oblong, bright red, 



often slightly pruinose. 94. C. neo-londinensis (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate; anthers pink; fruit obovoid, crimson, lustrous. 95. C. Hillii (A) . 



Stamens 10-20, usually 10; anthers pinkish purple, leaves broad-ovate, dull dark green and 



scabrate above; fruit short-oblong to slightly obovoid, dull red or crimson. 



96. C. assurgens (A). 

 Stamens usually 10. 



Fruit on short stout pedicels; leaves yellow-green and glabrous above. 



Leaves oval, drooping, conspicuously concave; anthers purple; fruit short-oblong, 



dark dull red, villose at the ends. 97. C. Pringlei (A). 



Leaves oval to oblong-ovate; anthers dark reddish purple; fruit short-oblong, crimson, 



lustrous. 98. C. lobulata (A). 



Fruit on long slender pedicels; leaves broad-ovate to obovate or rhombic, dark rich 



