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globose, bright scarlet, lustrous, about |' in diameter; calyx only slightly enlarged, with 

 reflexed lobes; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, broad and rounded at apex, narrowed 

 at base, T \j'-|-' long. 



A tree, 18-25 high, with a straight trunk occasionally 8'-10' in diameter, slender up- 

 right and spreading branches forming a broad open head, and thin zigzag glabrous light 

 reddish brown branchlets, unarmed, or armed with straight stout light brown spines I'-l^' 

 long; more often a shrub, with numerous spreading stems. 



Distribution. Rich soil usually near the banks of streams or swamps, or low depressions 

 in Pine-forests; North Carolina (near Albemarle, Stanly County) to central South Caro- 

 lina, central, northwestern (Rome, Floyd County), and southwestern Georgia to northern 

 Florida (Ocala, Marion County, to River Junction, Gadsden County) ; northern Alabama 

 southward to Dallas County; eastern and western Mississippi (near Natchez, Adams 

 County) eastern and northwestern Louisiana (Richland, Rapides, Caddo and Natchitoches 

 Parishes); eastern Texas to the valley of the Guadalupe River (near Seguin, Guadalupe 

 County), southeastern Oklahoma (Bennington, Bryan County), and through southern and 

 western Arkansas to southwestern Missouri (Tanney and Jasper Counties) ; probably most 

 abundant in central Georgia. 



XVII. BRACHYACANTILE. 

 CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate or rhombic; broad-ovate to nearly triangular on vigorous 

 shoots; fruit subglobose to obovoid, bright blue covered with a glaucous bloom. 



138. C. brachyacantha (C). 



Leaves narrow-rhombic to oval; lanceolate, acuminate on vigorous shoots; fruit globose, 

 blue-black, very lustrous. 139. C. saligna (F). 



138. Crataegus brachyacantha Sarg. & Engelm. Pomette Bleue. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate or rhombic, acute or rounded at apex, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the concave-cuneate entire base, and crenulate-serrate above with minute incurved 

 glandular teeth, slightly puberulous when they unfold on the upper surface and glabrous 



Fig. 490 



on the lower surface, nearly fully grown when the flowers open at the end of April and early 

 in May, and at maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green and lustrous, l'-2' long, and 

 %' to nearly 1' wide, with a thin inconspicuous midrib and veins; petioles slender, narrowly 



