ROSACE^E 



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wing-margined and slightly glandular above the middle, and covered at first with 

 short pale deciduous hairs; on vigorous shoots deeply divided into broad acute 

 lateral lobes, 2'-3' long, and 1|' wide, with lunate, coarsely glandular-serrate stip- 

 ules, sometimes 1' long. Flowers cup-shaped, about ^' in diameter, on slender 

 elongated pedicels, in broad loose compound many -flowered glabrous corymbs; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, the lobes narrow and acuminate, entire or irregularly gland- 

 ular-serrate, pubescent below the middle on the inner surface; stamens 10; 

 anthers small, rose color; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring 

 of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening early in October, on slender elongated pedicels, 

 in drooping many-fruited clusters, oblong or obovate, full and rounded at the ends, 

 slightly depressed at the insertion of the stalk, bright scarlet, marked by many 

 small dark dots, ^'-f long; calyx-lobes enlarged, erect, incurved, and persistent; 

 flesh thick, nearly white, firm and dry; nutlets 2 or 3, prominently ridged on the 

 back, about \' long. 



A nearly glabrous tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk occasionally 1 in diameter, 

 stout spreading branches forming a broad flat-topped symmetrical head, and branch- 

 lets armed with straight or slightly curved thin dull chestnut-brown spines 2'-2^' 

 long. 



Distribution. Open woods, the moist borders of streams and depressions in the 

 prairie, and on hillsides in clay soil, Short and Peoria counties, Illinois. 



4. Crataegus fecunda, Sarg. 



Leaves oblong-obovate to oval, or broadly ovate, acute or rarely rounded and 

 short-pointed at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed below, and coarsely and usu- 

 ally doubly serrate except toward the base, when they unfold dark green, lustrous 

 and roughened above by short pale appressed caducous hairs and pale yellow-green 



and villose along the midribs and primary veins below, about half grown when the 

 flowers open early in May and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark green and 

 lustrous above, pale yellow-green below, 2'-24' long, li'-2' wide, with stout midribs 

 and remote primary veins after midsummer often bright red below, turning late 

 in the autumn brilliant shades of orange or scarlet or deep rich bronze color; their 

 petioles more or less winged, often glandular, at first coated with pale hairs, soon 

 glabrous, dull red at maturity, ^'-f' long; on vigorous shoots often slightly lobed, 



