ROSACES 



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dark orange-brown, '-f ' long, and '-' in diameter; calyx prominent, with a long narrow 

 tube, and enlarged closely appressed lobes often deciduous before the fruit ripens; flesh 

 thick, orange color, dry and mealy; nutlets 5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, 

 ridged and deeply grooved on the back with a high narrow ridge, about \' long. 



Fig. 472 



A tree, 15-20 high, with a tall trunk 8'-10' in diameter, covered with thin dark brown 

 bark tinged with red and divided into narrow rounded ridges, stout ascending branches 

 forming an open and somewhat irregular head sometimes 20 across, and slender slightly 

 zigzag glabrous branchlets dark green deeply tinged with red when they first appear, be- 

 coming dull red-brown or orange-brown during their first season, darker the following year, 

 and ultimately dark gray-brown, and armed with thin nearly straight bright chestnut- 

 brown spines f'-lj' long. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil on the sand hills of Summerville, near Augusta, Richmond 

 County, Georgia, and at River Junction, Gadsden County, Florida. 



121. Crataegus visenda Beadl. 



Leaves ovate, obovate, or orbicular, short-pointed and acute or occasionally broad and 

 rounded at apex, concave-cuneate and gradually narrowed at the mostly entire base, finely 



Fig. 473 



