KOSACE^E 



509 



often deciduous before the fruit ripens; nutlets 3-5, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded 

 at the narrow base, about j' long. 



A tree, occasionally 20 high, with a tall straight trunk 6'-8' in diameter, sometimes 

 armed with long gray compound spines, stout ascending branches forming a narrow open 

 irregular or occasionally a round-topped head, and glabrous branchlets furnished with 

 many thin nearly straight light chestnut-brown spines H'-2' long; or more often a shrub, 

 with numerous stems. 



Distribution. Banks of streams, the borders of fields and upland woods in the southern 

 Appalachian foothill region from southern Virginia to northern Georgia; in northern Ala- 

 bama, southeastern Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee; sometimes ascending to altitudes 

 of 3000 above the sea. 



113. Crataegus Buckley! Beadl. 



Leaves broad-ovate or oval, acute, rounded or subcordate or narrowed and concave- 

 cuneate at the entire base, coarsely often doubly serrate above with straight glandular 

 teeth, and more or less incisely lobed with acuminate lateral lobes, more than half grown 



Fig. 465 



when the flowers open about the middle of May and then pale green and glabrous with the 

 exception of a few caducous hairs on the upper side of the base of the midrib, and at ma- 

 turity dark green above, paler below, If '-2' long, and 1%'-%' wide; petioles stout, conspicu- 

 ously glandular above the base, wing-margined at the apex, glabrous, '-' in length. 

 Flowers about f in diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels, in compact 3-7-flowered simple 

 corymbs, with conspicuously glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 

 glabrous, the lobes broad, acuminate, laciniately cut toward the apex, and glandular with 

 stipitate glands; stamens 10; anthers pale rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by tufts 

 of pale hairs. Fruit ripening late in September or in October, subglobose, usually angled, 

 red or russet-red, about \' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with spreading or reflexed 

 lobes; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, broad and rounded at base, rounded at the 

 slightly narrowed apex, prominently ridged on the back, with a broad grooved ridge, 

 about jV long. 



A tree, often 25 high, with a trunk 4 '-7' in diameter and sometimes 10-12 long, 

 covered with gray or often dark brown scaly bark, stout spreading or ascending branches, 

 and thick glabrous red-brown branchlets armed with thin straight shining spines \' long, 

 becoming much longer and branched on the trunk and large branches. 



Distribution. Southwestern Virginia, through western North Carolina to eastern 

 Tennessee; usually at altitudes between 2000 and 3000; common on wooded slopes with 

 Oaks, Hickories, and Pines. 



