KOSACE^E 



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shapely handsome head, and slender branchlets hoary-tomentose when they first appear, 

 bright red-brown and puberulous at the end of their first season, becoming dark gray- 

 brown, and armed with few slender straight spines IJ'-l?' long; or often a large shrub. 



Distribution. Slopes of low hills, northwestern Georgia; common in the neighborhood 

 of Rome, Floyd County. 



125. Crataegus floridana Sarg. 



Leaves obovate-cuneate, frequently 3-lobed at apex with short rounded lobes, gradually 

 narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, finely serrate above with straight or incurved 

 teeth tipped with conspicuous ultimately dark persistent glands, 3-nerved with slender 

 nerves, numerous thin secondary veins and reticulate veinlets, slightly villose above as 

 they unfold, nearly fully grown when the flowers open about the middle of March, and then 

 light yellow-green and glabrous with the exception of* a few persistent hairs on the upper 

 side of the nerves and in their axils, and at maturity thick and firm, dark green and lustrous 



Fig. 477 



on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, !'-!' long, and about \' wide; petioles 

 slender, glandular, more or less winged toward the apex, tomentose, becoming pubescent 

 or glabrous, usually about \' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots frequently 2' 

 long, and sometimes divided by deep rounded sinuses into numerous narrow lateral lobes, 

 their stipules lunate, foliaceous, pointed, coarsely glandular-serrate. Flowers about f ' in 

 diameter, on slender tomentose pedicels, in few usually 1-3-flowered simple compact 

 corymbs; calyx-tube broadly obconic, coated with long matted white hairs, the lobes nar- 

 row, acuminate, glandular with bright red stipitate glands, villose toward the base on the 

 outer surface and on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers small, pale yellow; styles 4 or 5, 

 surrounded at the base by a broad rjng of long shining white hairs. Fruit ripening from the 

 middle to the end of August, on short stout pubescent pedicels, solitary or in 2 or 3-fruited 

 drooping clusters, obovoid to short-oblong, usually about \ ' long, bright orange-red, lus- 

 trous, marked by numerous pale dots; calyx prominent, with an elongated tube puberulous 

 on the outer surface, and reflexed glandular-serrate lobes; flesh thin, yellow 7 , dry and 

 mealy; nutlets 4 or 5, acute at base, broad and rounded at apex, rounded and occasionally 

 slightly ridged on the back, about \' long. 



A tree, rarely more than 15 high, with a long straight trunk 6'-8' in diameter, covered 

 with thick nearly black deeply furrowed bark broken into short thick plate-like scales, 

 small drooping branches forming a handsome symmetrical head, and slender conspicuously 

 zigzag pendulous branchlets coated when they first appear with long pale matted hairs. 



