464 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



glandular teeth, and more or less incisely lobed, with acuminate lateral lobes, more 

 than half grown when the flowers open about the middle of May and then pale green 

 and glabrous with the exception of a few caducous hairs along the upper side of the 



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base of the midribs, and at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark green above, 

 paler below, l^'-2' long, l^'-2' wide, and on vigorous shoots sometimes wider than 

 long; their petioles stout, conspicuously glandular above the base, wing-margined at 

 the apex, glabrous, '-f' long. Flowers about f ' in diameter, on slender glabrous 

 pedicels, in compact 3-7-flowered simple corymbs, with conspicuously glandular 

 bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes broad, acuminate, 

 laciniately cut toward the apex, and glandular, with stipitate glands; stamens 10; 

 anthers pale rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by tufts of pale hairs. 

 Fruit ripening late in September or in October, subglobose, usually angled, red or 

 russet red, about \' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with spreading or reflexed 

 lobes; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, full and rounded at the base, rounded 

 at the slightly narrowed apex, prominently ridged on the back, with a broad grooved 

 ridge, about ^' long. 



A tree, often 25 high, with a trunk 4'-7' in diameter, and sometimes 10-12 

 long, and covered with gray or often dark brown scaly bark, stout spreading or 

 ascending branches, and thick glabrous red-brown branchlets armed with thin straight 

 shining spines ' long, becoming much longer and branched on the trunk and large 

 branches. 



Distribution. Southwestern Virginia, through western North Carolina to eastern 

 Tennessee; usually at elevations between 2000 and 3000 above the sea; common 

 on wooded slopes with Oaks, Hickories, and Pines. 



95. Crataegus venusta, Beadl. 



Leaves oval to ovate or occasionally to oblong-obovate, acute, gradually or 

 abruptly narrowed and cuneate or rounded at the entire base, finely serrate above, 

 with usually incurved glandular teeth, and frequently slightly and irregularly divided 

 above the middle into 1-3 pairs of short broad acute lobes, when they unfold dark 

 bronze color, with a few scattered pale caducous hairs on the upper surface, about 

 half grown when the flowers open from the 20th to the end of April, and then 



