ROSACE/E 



513 



yellow-green, l-g-'-S' long, and !'-!%' wide, with a slender yellow midrib, and thin primary 

 veins extending very obliquely to the point of the lobes: turning in the autumn orange, 

 yellow, or brown; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined toward the apex, sparingly 

 glandular, i'-l' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broadly ovate, cuneate or 

 nearly truncate at the wide base, deeply divided into broad lateral lobes, often 2'-3' long 

 and broad, with a stout broadly winged petiole frequently 1' long. Flowers l|'-lj' in 

 diameter, on long slender pedicels, in 5-10-flowered glabrous corymbs, with large conspicu- 

 ously glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes grad- 

 ually narrowed from a broad base, glabrous, entire or sparingly serrate; stamens 20; anthers 

 pale rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripen^ 

 ing in September and October, on elongated, slender pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clus- 

 ters, subglobose, orange-red, about \' in diameter; calyx-lobes deciduous before the matur~ 

 ity of the fruit leaving a narrow ring round the shallow 7 cavity; flesh thin and firm; nutlets 

 3-5, broad, rounded at the ends, barely grooved on the rounded back, j 3 ,/ long and nearly 

 as broad. 



Fig, 469 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk 4 '-6' in diameter, covered with gray or brown scaly 

 bark, spreading or ascending branches, and slender red-brown branchlets unarmed or 

 armed with stout spines \'-\' long; more often a large much-branched shrub, with one or 

 more stems. 



Distribution. Woods and borders of fields, northwestern Florida; common in the 

 neighborhood of Tallahassee, Leon County. 



XIV. BRACTEAT^E. 

 CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Leaves oval to broad-obovate, subcoriaceous; corymbs many-flowered; stamens 10-20, 

 usually 20; fruit bright red or orange-red. 118. C. Harbisonii (C). 



Leaves broad-ovate or rarely obovate, thin: corymbs 3-10-flowered; stamens 20; fruit 

 bright red. 119. C. Ashei (C) 



118. Crataegus Harbisonii Beadl. 



Leaves oval to broad-obovate, acute at apex, cuneate or rounded at the entire base, 

 and coarsely serrate above with straight glandular teeth, when they unfold roughened 

 above by stout, rigid pale hairs, and soft and pubescent below, nearly fully grown early in 



