ROSACES 



519 





obconic, glabrous, the lobes abruptly narrowed from the base, wide, glabrous, glandular 

 with dark red stipitate glands, and often coarsely serrate above the middle; stamens 20; 

 anthers large, dark rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a ring of pale hairs. Fruit 

 ripening and falling at the end of September and early in October, on slender erect pedicels, 

 in few-fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, orange-red, marked by numerous pale 

 dots, about f ' long; calyx enlarged and prominent, with spreading lobes often deciduous 

 from the ripe fruit; flesh thick and soft; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the ends, prominently but 

 irregularly ridged and grooved on the back, \' long. . 



A tree, sometimes 10-12 high, w r ith a slender trunk covered with ashy gray fissured 

 scaly bark often tinged with brown and frequently nearly black near the ground, stout 

 ascending branches, and slender zigzag glabrous branchlets bright red-brown during their 

 first season, becoming dark gray-brown, and armed with many very slender red-brown 

 lustrous ultimately ashy gray spines l'-l|' long. 



Distribution. Northeastern Alabama; common on Lookout Mountain above Valley 

 Head and at Collinsville, DeKalb County, and at Gadsden, Etowah County. 



123. Crataegus consanguinea Beadl. 



Leaves broad-obovate to nearly orbicular, occasionally oval or rhombic, acute and gen- 

 erally short-pointed at apex, gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate or sometimes 

 rounded at the entire base, finely and often doubly serrate with glandular teeth, and fre- 



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quently irregularly divided above the middle into short acute lobes, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of March or early in April, and then very thin, blue- 

 green, slightly villose, especially on the midrib and veins, and at maturity thin, bright 

 green, glabrous with the exception of a few hairs on the under side of the slender midrib, 

 and thin primary veins extending very obliquely toward the end of the leaf, about 1' long, 

 and f '-f ' wide; petioles slender, glandular, wing-margined above, villose early in the season, 

 becoming glabrous, |'-f in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots often l|'-2' long 

 and wide. Flowers f in diameter, on long slender hairy pedicels, in simple 1-5-flowered 

 corymbs, with oblanceolate acuminate bright red caducous bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube 

 broadly obconic, sparingly hairy with long pale caducous hairs, the lobes gradually nar- 

 rowed from a broad base, acute, glandular with minute bright red glands, glabrous; stamens 

 20; anthers small, deep rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of short 

 pale hairs. Fruit ripening and falling about the middle of September, on slender glabrous 

 pedicels, often only a single fruit in a cluster developing, globose to depressed-globose, 

 bright red, marked by small dark dots, nearly \' in diameter; calyx prominent, with en- 



