TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



becoming during their first season dark red-brown and more or less villose, and dark brown 

 the following year, and armed with thin straight spines f '-!' long, or unarmed. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil of the Pine-barrens of northeastern Florida; abundant in 

 the neighborhood of Jacksonville, Duval County. 



126. Crataegus lacrimata Small. 



Leaves obovate, rounded or acute and glandular-serrate at apex usually with incurved 

 teeth, entire and glandular below, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the base, 

 and 3-nerved with slender yellow nerves, numerous thin secondary veins and reticulate 

 veinlets, when the flowers open early in April nearly fully grown, light yellow, glabrous, 

 with the exception of small tufts of pale caducous hairs in the axils of the nerves below, and 

 at maturity subcoriaceous, lustrous, |'-f ' long, and about f ' wide; petioles slender, wing- 

 margined toward the apex, dark orange-brown, at first puberulous, soon becoming gla- 

 brous, \'-\' in length. Flowers about f ' in diameter, on short stout glabrous pedicels, in 

 3-5-flowered simple corymbs, with long linear entire caducous bracts and bractlets turning 



Fig. 478 



red in fading; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed from a 

 broad base, acuminate, entire, tipped with large dark glands; stamens 20; anthers large, 

 light yellow; styles usually 3, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit 

 ripening toward the end of August, on slender pedicels, in 1 or 2-fruited clusters, subglobose 

 to short-oblong, rounded at the ends, dull brownish yellow marked by occasional dark 

 dots, about \' in diameter; calyx prominent, with an elongated tube, and spreading lobes 

 usually deciduous before the fruit ripens; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy: nutlets 3, broad, 

 rounded at the broad ends, rounded and sometimes obscurely grooved on the back, about 

 f long. 



A tree, occasionally 20 but usually not more than 10 high, with a tall trunk 4'-G' in 

 diameter, covered with thick deeply furrowed black bark broken on the surface into thick 

 plate-like closely appressed scales, long slender drooping branches forming a handsome 

 symmetrical round-topped head; and thin glabrous very zigzag branchlets light orange- 

 brown when they first appear, soon becoming reddish brown and lustrous, and dark gray- 

 brown in their second year, and armed with many small nearly straight dark chestnut- 

 brown spines |'-f ' long. 



Distribution. Western Florida, Walton and Santa Rosa Counties (Pensacola to De 

 Funiak Springs); sometimes in moist sand; more often in dry barrens; common and 

 often a conspicuous feature of the vegetation. 



