ROSACKE 409 



-H ^Anthers purple or rose color. 



43. Crataegus iiigens, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate-oval or ovate, broadly or narrowly wedge-shaped at the entire 

 base, creuately serrate above, and often slightly lobed toward the acute apex, about 

 half grown when the flowers open at the end of April or early in May and then 

 roughened above by short rigid hairs and villose below along the midribs and remote 

 slender veins extending very obliquely to the points of the lobes, and at maturity 

 subcoriaceous, dark green and scabrate on the upper surface, paler and nearly gla- 

 brous on the lower surface, l^'-2' long, l^'-l^' wide, turning in the autumn yellow, 

 orange, red, or brown; their petioles stout, narrowly wing-margined to the middle, 

 pubescent while young, becoming glabrous, about f long; on vigorous shoots more 

 deeply lobed and often 3'-3' long, and 2' wide, with stout broad-winged petioles 

 sometimes 1^' in length. Flowers ^'-f' in diameter, on slender hairy pedicels, in 

 many-flowered compact hairy corymbs; calyx narrowly obconic, coated, especially 

 toward the base, with matted pale hairs, the lobes slender, elongated, acute, gland- 

 ular, with bright red glands, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner 

 surface; stamens 20; anthers bright purple; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening in October, 



on stout puberulous pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, globose to subglobose, 

 red, about |' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with reflexed appressed nearly gla- 

 brous lobes; flesh firm; nutlets 3-5, rounded or slightly grooved and ridged on the 

 back, ^ long. 



A tree, sometimes 25 high, with a trunk a foot in diameter, spreading branches 

 forming a wide round-topped head, and unarmed branchlets covered at first with 

 matted pale hairs, soon becoming glabrous. 



Distribution. Moist woods and the low banks of streams; southeastern Tennes- 

 see and northwestern Georgia. 



44. Crataegus penita, Beadl. 



Leaves broadly obovate, oval, or ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, broadly 

 or acutely concave-cuneate at the entire base, sharply often doubly serrate above, 

 with glandular mostly straight teeth, and often slightly lobed above the middle, 



