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ously glandular teeth, when they unfold often dark red, covered above with long pale 

 caducous hairs and villose below on the midrib and veins, nearly fully grown when the 

 flowers open from the 1st to the 10th of May and then bright yellow-green and almost gla- 

 brous with the exception of the persistent tufts of pale hairs in the axils of the veins, and 

 at maturity thin and firm, dark green and lustrous above, paler below, usually about 1^' 

 long and 1' wide, with an orange-colored midrib, generally 3 pairs of slender primary veins 

 extending obliquely to the point of the lobes, and dark conspicuous reticulate veinlets; 

 turning red, yellow, or brown in the autumn; petioles slender, glandular, wing-margined 

 above, at first tomentose, becoming pubescent or nearly glabrous, about f in length; 

 leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, often nearly orbicular, more deeply 

 lobed with broad rounded or acute lobes, 2'-2|' in diameter, their stipules lunate, 

 coarsely glandular-dentate, sometimes \' long. Flowers f in diameter, on long slender 

 pedicels coated with matted pale hairs, in lax compound 3-6-flowered villose corymbs, 

 with lanceolate straight or falcate glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, villose particularly toward the base, the lobes narrow, elongated, acuminate. 



Fig. 480 



nearly glabrous, coarsely and irregularly glandular-serrate; stamens 20; styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at base by a broad ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit ripening and falling at the end 

 of September or early in October, on slender slightly hairy elongated pedicels, in few- 

 fruited drooping clusters, globose, bright red, \'-\' in diameter; calyx enlarged, with closely 

 appressed lobes; flesh yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, broad and rounded at apex, nar- 

 rowed and acute at base, slightly grooved on the back, about \' long. 



Distribution. Abandoned fields and open Pine-woods near Asheville, Buncombe County, 

 North Carolina, at altitudes of about 2200. 



129. Crataegus annosa Beadl. 



Leaves obovate, oval, or oblanceolate, cuneate and glandular at base, sharply and often 

 doubly glandular-serrate above, and usually slightly lobed toward the short-pointed acute 

 apex, more than half grown when the flowers open early in April and then pale yellow-green 

 and scurfy above, with a few short pale hairs above and below near the base of the midrib, 

 and at maturity thin, glabrous, bright green, \'-\\' long, and f '-!' wide, with a prominent 

 pale yellow midrib, and remote slender veins extending very obliquely to the point of the 

 lobes; turning in the autumn yellow, orange, or brown; petioles slender, narrowly winged 

 above, conspicuously glandular with large dark glands, \'-\' in length; leaves at the end of 

 vigorous shoots broad-ovate to obovate or suborbicular, coarsely serrate, conspicuously 

 reticulate-venulose, sometimes 2' long and wide, with broadly winged petioles and folia- 



