ROSACE^E 



ceous coarsely dentate persistent stipules often f long. Flowers f ' in diameter, on stout 

 villose pedicels, in simple 3-5-flowered villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, spar- 

 ingly villose toward the base, the lobes acute, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer sur- 

 face, puberulous on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers almost white; styles 3-5, sur- 

 rounded at base by a broad ring of snow-white tomentum. Fruit ripening and falling late 

 in August or early in September, subglobose or ellipsoidal, orange-red or red and orange, 



Fig. 481 



about \' long; calyx little enlarged, the lobes puberulous on the upper side and reflexed; 

 flesh thick and soft; nutlets 3-5, broad and rounded at base, narrowed and rounded at 

 apex, rounded and ridged on the back with a broad low rounded ridge, about T %' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk sometimes a foot in diameter, covered with dark 

 rough often black bark, stout spreading or ascending branches, and thick dull red-brown 

 ultimately dark gray or nearly black branchlets armed with straight rather stout spines 

 l'-H' long. 



Distribution. Eastern central Alabama; common near Phoenix, Lee County, and 

 Girard, Russell County. 



130. Crataegus panda Beadl. 



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

 occasionally slightly lobed apex, concave-cuneate and glandular at the entire base, and 

 finely serrate above with minute incurved glandular teeth, when they unfold tinged with 

 red and sparingly villose, nearly fully grown when the flowers open the 1st of April and then 

 roughened above by short pale rigid hairs and villose above and below on the midrib and 

 on the veins below, and at maturity glabrous, or puberulous on the under surface of the 

 slender midrib, subcoriaceous, light green and lustrous, glandular, l'-lf long, and f'-l' 

 wide, with slender primary veins extending very obliquely toward the end of the leaf; 

 turning yellow-brown or orange color in the autumn before falling; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at apex, villose early in the season, becoming glabrous, glandular, about f ' 

 in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, rounded, apiculate and lobed 

 at apex, puberulous and villose on the midrib and veins on the lower surface, often If long 

 and 2' wide. Flowers f'-f ' in diameter, on slender hairy pedicels, in compact 3-5-flowered 

 simple corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with matted white hairs, the lobes 

 gradually narrowed from a broad base, acuminate, glandular-serrate, more or less villose: 

 stamens 20; anthers nearly white; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale 

 hairs. Fruit ripening and falling at the end of August or early in September, on stout pedi- 

 cels, in erect few-fruited clusters, globose or depressed-globose, orange-yellow, with a red 



