

ROSACE^E 527 



with a thin yellow midrib puberulous below, slender primary veins extending very obliquely 

 to the end of the leaf, with 1 or 2 pairs near the middle of the blade more prominent than 

 those below and above them; turning in the autumn yellow, orange and brown; petioles 

 slender, narrowly wing-margined above, glandular, at first hoary-tomentose, becoming 

 pubescent or puberulous, i'-f in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broadly 

 obovate, short-pointed at apex, slightly undulate-lobed above the middle, sometimes 

 \\' long and broad. Flowers f'f' in diameter, on slender elongated hoary-tomentose 

 pedicels, in 3-5-flowered simple corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, thickly covered 

 with matted white hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed from a broad base, acuminate, 

 glandular, pilose on the outer, sparingly pilose on the inner surface; stamens 20; an- 

 thers pale yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a thick ring of white hairs. Fruit 

 ripening and falling in August, on slender erect pubescent pedicels, globose, red, about \' 

 in diameter; calyx deciduous; flesh thin, orange-yellow r , and succulent; nutlets 3-5, nar- 

 rowed and acute at the base, rounded at the apex, flat and grooved on the back with a 

 narrow shallow groove, about jV l n g- 



A tree, 12-15 high, with a trunk sometimes 8' in diameter, covered with thick nearly 

 black checkered bark, drooping branches forming a handsome symmetrical head, and 

 slender very zigzag branchlets clothed when they first appear with hoary tomentum, 

 rather bright reddish brown and roughened by minute tubercles at the end of their first 

 season, becoming gray or grayish brown, and unarmed or armed with occasional short 

 slender spines. 



Distribution. Sandy woods and abandoned fields; central Florida; common near Eustis, 

 Lake County, and Orlando, Orange County. 



132. Crataegus recurva Beadl. 



Leaves spatulate, rounded or acute or sometimes obovate and obtusely 3-lobed at apex, 

 and finely glandular-serrate with bright red glands, nearly half grown when the flowers 



Fig. 484 



open about the 20th of March and then almost glabrous above, slightly hairy near the base 

 below, and at maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, about 1' long and \'-\' wide, with a slender 

 yellow midrib and one pair of veins often more prominent than the others and nearly 

 parallel with the margins of the blade; turning in the autumn yellow, orange, and brown; 

 petioles slender, conspicuously glandular, villose when they first appear, becoming gla- 

 brous, \'-\' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broad-obovate, deeply divided 

 into narrow lateral ascending rounded lobes, concave-cuneate at base, with a stouter mid- 

 rib, and veins arching to the point of the lobes, and often 1' long and f ' wide. Flowers 



