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narrowly obovate, rounded above, undulate and sometimes irregularly dentate at 

 the base of the blade, white, pink, or rose color; ovary and the lower part of the 

 styles densely hoary-toinentose. Fruit depressed-globose, f'-l' in diameter, pale 

 yellow-green, very fragrant when fully ripe, with hard acid flesh. 



A tree, rarely 30 high, with a short trunk 8'-10' in diameter, rigid branches 

 forming a broad open head, and young branchlets clothed at first with pale caducous 

 pubescence, becoming in their first winter brown slightly tinged with red, and in 

 their second year light brown and marked by occasional orange-colored lenticels. 

 Winter-buds fa' long, chestnut-brown, slightly pubescent. Bark \'-^' thick, dark 

 reddish brown, and divided by deep longitudinal fissures into narrow ridges broken 

 on the surface into small persistent plate-like scales. Wood heavy, hard, close- 

 grained, light brown tinged with red, with thick yellow sapwood; occasionally em- 

 ployed for levers, the handles of tools and other small objects. The fruit is used for 

 preserves. 



Distribution. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and southern Delaware, through 

 the coast region of the south Atlantic states to the valley of the Chattahoochee 

 River, Florida, through the Gulf states to the valley of the Red River, Louisiana, 

 and northward to middle Tennessee; in the Atlantic states in forest glades, usually 

 in the neighborhood of streams; in the Gulf states often in the sandy soil of dry 

 depressions of the Pine-covered uplands. 



2. Malus coronaria, Mill. Crab Apple. Fragrant Crab. 



Leaves ovate or sometimes almost triangular, usually acute, often truncate or 

 subcordate and occasionally acute at the base, incisely serrate, with glandular teeth, 



often 3-lobed, especially on vigorous shoots, when they unfold red-bronze, coated 

 below with pale tomentum and pilose above, at maturity membranaceoiis, bright 

 green on the upper surface, paler, glabrous or sometimes slightly pilose on the lower 

 surface, 3'-4' long, l%'-2% wide, with broad midribs and primary veins, and con- 

 spicuous veinlets, turning yellow in the autumn before falling; their petioles slender, 

 l'-2' long, at first tomentose or pubescent, ultimately glabrous, often glandular 

 near the middle, with 2 dark glands; stipules acuminate, \' long. Flowers l^'-2' 

 across when expanded, in 5 or 6-flowered umbels, on slender pedicels, very fragrant; 

 calyx-tube coated with thick white tomentum, its lobes elongated, acute, ending in 



