ROSACES 



489 



green and scabrate above; anthers rose color; fruit short-oblong, bright scarlet, 

 lustrous. 99. C. pedicellate (A). 



Stamens usually 5-7, rarely 10. 



Fruit obovoid to ellipsoidal; leaves oval or ovate, conspicuously yellow-green; anthers 

 dark reddish purple; fruit crimson, lustrous. 100. C. Holmesiana (A). 



Fruit short-oblong; leaves oblong-ovate, deep yellow-green, nearly smooth above; an- 

 thers pink; fruit yellowish red, glaucous. 101. 0. acclivis (A). 

 Fruit subglobose to obovoid. 



Leaves glabrous above; anthers dark rose color. 



Leaves broad-ovate, thin, light yellow-green and lustrous above; fruit bright red or 



scarlet. 102. C. delecte (A). 



Leaves oblong-ovate, subcoriaceous, dark dull green; fruit bright cherry-red, 



pruinose. 103. C. Eamesii (A). 



Leaves scabrate above, oblong-ovate, thin, dark yellow-green; anthers pale rose 



color; fruit crimson. 104. C. sertata (A). 



94. Crataegus neo-londinensis Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded, truncate or broadly concave-cuneate at the 

 wide entire or glandular base, sharply often doubly serrate above with straight glandular 

 teeth, and divided into numerous short narrow acuminate lateral lobes, about half grown 



Fig. 446 



when the flowers open the middle of May and then very thin, light yellow-green and 

 roughened above by short white rigid hairs and paler and sparingly hairy below, and at 

 maturity membranaceous, dull yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale green 

 and glabrous below, or occasionally slightly hairy on the under side of the stout yellow 

 midrib, and of the thin remote primary veins arching to the point of the lobes, 3 '-4' long, 

 and 2'-3|' wide; petioles slender, nearly terete, glandular, at first slightly hairy, becoming 

 glabrous and purplish toward the base, l'-2' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots 

 only slightly larger. Flowers l'-lf in diameter, on slender sparingly villose pedicels, in 

 lax slightly drooping usually 5-12-flowered villose or nearly glabrous corymbs, with linear 

 often slightly falcate glandular bracts and bractlets, persistent until after the flowers open ; 

 calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with short matted pale hairs, the lobes gradually 

 narrowed from a broad base, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate below the middle, gla- 

 brous on the outer, villose on the inner surface; stamens 17-21, usually 20; anthers deep 

 rose-purple; styles 4 or 5, usually 5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 



