ROSACE^E 



127. Crataegus Ravenelii Sarg. 



Leaves obovate, rounded and abruptly short-pointed or acute at the broad sometimes 

 slightly lobed apex, gradually narrowed from above the middle to the elongated cuneate 

 base, more or less undulate on the margins, and coarsely and usually doubly glandular- 

 serrate above with large bright red ultimately dark persistent glands, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open the middle of April, and then coated with long pale caducous hairs, 

 and at maturity thin and firm in texture, yellow-green, scabrous on the upper surface, pale, 

 and pubescent on the lower surface on the slender veins, I'-l^' long, and about f wide; 

 petioles slender, glandular, winged above, tomentose when they first appear, becoming 

 pubescent, \'-\' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots often 2' long and 1^' wide, 

 and frequently divided above the middle into 2 or 3 pairs of broad lateral lobes. Flowers 

 about f in diameter, on slender tomentose pedicels, in simple corymbs; calyx-tube nar- 

 rowly obconic, thickly coated with long white hairs, the lobes lanceolate, villose on the 

 outer, glabrous on the inner surface, glandular with small red glands; stamens 20; anthers 



Fig. 479 



small, pale yellow; styles 5, surrounded at base by a broad ring of pale tomentum. Fruit 

 ripening early in October, on short thick pedicels, in few-fruited drooping or spreading clus- 

 ters, globose to short-oblong, bright orange-red, marked by occasional dark dots, puberu- 

 lous at the ends, \'-\' in diameter; calyx prominent, with enlarged spreading and appressed 

 lobes; flesh thick, yellow, subacid; nutlets 5, narrowed and acute at the ends, ridged on the 

 back with a high narrow ridge, \' long. 



A tree, 25-30 high, with a trunk often 14' or 15' in diameter, covered with thick dark 

 brown bark deeply divided into narrow interrupted ridges broken on the surface into, short 

 thick plate-like scales, heavy ascending or spreading branches forming an open irregular 

 head, and stout zigzag branchlets thickly coated at first with hoary tomentum, dark purple 

 or red-brown and pubescent during their first summer, becoming dark red-brown and gla- 

 brous the following season, and armed with thick straight dull gray-brown spines usually 

 about \\' long. 



Distribution. Sand hills near Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina, and in Summerville 

 near Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. 



128. Crataegus senta Beadl. 



Leaves obovate or obovate-cuneiform, acute or sometimes rounded and frequently 

 slightly divided into several short acute lobes at the broad apex, gradually narrowed from 

 the middle to the entire base, and serrate or doubly serrate above with incurved conspicu- 



