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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



\'-\' in diameter, on stout pedicels thickly covered with matted pale hairs, solitary or in 

 2-flowered simple corymbs; calyx-tube broadly obconic, pilose below, nearly glabrous 

 above, the lobes slender, acuminate, glandular-serrate, slightly hairy on the outer surface, 

 glabrous on the inner surface; stamens 20; anthers pale yellow; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening 

 in August, erect on short stout pedicels, obovoid, red, \' long; calyx little enlarged, often 

 deciduous; flesh thick and soft; nutlets 3-5, broad and rounded at the ends, rounded and 

 obscurely grooved on the back, about \' long. 



A tree, 15-18 high, with a short trunk 5'-6' in diameter, covered with gray or brownish 

 rough bark, slender pendulous branches forming a broad symmetrical head, and slender 

 very zigzag branchlets, villose early in tho season, becoming bright chestnut-brown and 

 very lustrous and ultimately dark reddish brown, and armed with numerous slender 

 straight spines usually about \' long. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil, Ocala, Marion County, Florida. 



133. Crataegus dispar Beadl. 



Leaves broad-ovate or orbicular, 3-nerved, acute or rounded at apex, generally narrowed 

 and cuneate or concave-cuneate at the glandular entire base, serrate or doubly serrate 

 above with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and mostly divided above the middle into 



Fig. 485 



short acute lobes, when they unfold coated with long matted white hairs most abundant on 

 the lower surface, more than half grown when the flowers open about the middle of April 

 and then blue-green and villose above and tomentose below, and at maturity thin and firm 

 in texture, blue-green and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and slightly pubescent on the 

 lower surface, usually about 1' long and f'-l' wide; turning red, yellow, or brown in the 

 autumn; petioles slender, tomentose, becoming pubescent or villose, glandular, slightly 

 wing-margined above, usually about \' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots 

 broad-ovate or suborbicular, rounded at the broad base, coarsely serrate, and often deeply 

 divided above the middle into 3 wide acute lobes broader than long. Flowers about f ' in 

 diameter, on slender hoary-tomentose pedicels, in simple 3-7-flowered corymbs, with 

 narrow-obovate acute glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, coated 

 with hoary tomentum, the lobes narrow, acute, glandular-serrate with minute bright red 

 glands, tomentose on the outer surface below the middle, glabrous above, tomentose on the 

 inner surface; stamens 20; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit ripening late in August or early in September, on slender pubescent pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, light red, puberulous toward the ends, about 

 \' in diameter; calyx prominent, with reflexed closely appressed lobes tomentose at base; 



