ROSACE^E 529 



flesh thin, yellow, subacid; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the ends, ridged on the back with a 

 broad low ridge, dark brown, \' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a short trunk a foot in diameter, heavy ascending branches 

 forming a broad irregular head, and stout zigzag branchlets at first hoary-tomentose, dark 

 red-brown and pubescent during their first summer, becoming darker colored and glabrous 

 the following season, and armed with thick or thin nearly straight dark red-brown ulti- 

 mately gray spines l|'-2' long. 



Distribution. Dry sand hills near Aiken, Aiken County, and Trenton, Edgefield County, 

 South Carolina; more abundant at Summerville, west of Augusta, Richmond County, 

 Georgia. 



134. Crataegus aprica Beadl. 



Leaves broad-obovate, oval, or rhombic, acute and short-pointed or rounded and often 

 somewhat lobed at apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, 

 and serrate usually only above the middle with small incurved teeth terminating in con- 



Fig. 486 



spicuous rose-colored ultimately dark red persistent glands, when they unfold deep orange 

 color, roughened above by short pale appressed hairs and sparingly villose below, espe- 

 cially on the slender midrib and remote primary veins, nearly fully grown when the flowers 

 open about the 10th of May, and at maturity thick and firm, glabrous, smooth, and dark 

 yellow-green on the upper surfa.ce, pale on the lower surface, I'-lj' long, and 1' wide; 

 petioles stout, conspicuously glandular, more or less winged toward the apex, villose early 

 in the season, becoming nearly glabrous, usually bright red on the lower side toward the 

 base after midsummer, about \' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots often 

 nearly orbicular, frequently more deeply lobed, and l|'-2' long and wide, with a stout 

 broadly winged petiole, and foliaceous lunate stipules. Flowers -f ' in diameter, on slen- 

 der villose pedicels, in small 3-6-flowered compact simple corymbs; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, villose at base, glabrous above, the lobes gradually narrowed from a broad base, 

 acuminate, glabrous, coarsely glandular-serrate; stamens 10; anthers small, bright yellow; 

 styles 3-5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening late in the 

 autumn, on stout glabrous or slightly villose pedicels, in erect or drooping usually 2 or 3- 

 fruited clusters, subglobose, rarely rather longer than broad, about \' in diameter, dull 

 orange-red, often slightly villose at the ends, marked by numerous small dark dots; calyx 

 much enlarged, with wide-spreading coarsely glandular acuminate lobes bright red at base 

 on the upper side; flesh thin, light yellow, sweet and rather juicy; nutlets 3-5, broad and 

 rounded at the ends, rounded and ridged on the back with a broad low ridge, about \ f long. 



