ROSACEJE 



465 



yellow-green, smooth and glabrous, and at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark 

 dull green above, pale below, 2^' long, !' wide, with stout midribs and 4-7 pairs of 

 thin primary veins, late in the autumn turning, especially those on leading shoots, 

 deep orange or scarlet; their petioles stout, glandular, more or less winged above, 

 ' I' long, and in the autumn often bright red below the middle; on vigorous shoots 

 generally broadly ovate, full and rounded at the base, deeply lobed, with broad 

 lobes, and often 3^' long and 3' wide. Flowers 1' in diameter, on short pedicels, in 

 4-9-flowered compact corymbs, their bracts and bractlets like the inner bud-scales 

 coarsely glandular-serrate and bright red before falling; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 

 the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acute, coarsely glandular-serrate 

 often only below the middle; stamens 15-20, usually 15-17; anthers small, pale yellow; 

 styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening and falling 

 from the 1st to the middle of October, on stout pedicels often 1' long, in few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, dull red, often with a bright russet 





face, marked by occasional large dark dots; calyx prominent, with a long tube, and 

 spreading lobes often deciduous before the fruit ripens; flesh thick, yellow, dry and 

 mealy ; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and acute at the base, full and rounded at the apex, 

 thick, full and rounded on the back, about ^' long. 



A bushy tree, often 25 high, with a short trunk a foot in diameter and armed 

 like the large branches with innumerable stout much-branched spines frequently 6' 

 long, and stout branchlets furnished with numerous straight or slightly, curved dark 

 chestnut-brown shining spines frequently pointing toward the base of the branch and 

 l\'- ( >% long. 



Distribution. Open Oak and Hickory woods on the dry slopes of Red Mountain 

 in the southern part of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. 



96. Crataegus Sargenti, Beadl. 



Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptical or rarely to ovate, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, gradually or abruptly cuneate or rounded at the nearly entire base, irregularly 

 doubly serrate above, with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and usually irregu- 

 larly divided into 3 or 4 pairs of short broad acute or acuminate lobes, nearly fully 

 grown when the flowers open late in April, and then subcoriaceous, pale yellow- 

 green, and villose along the midribs, with scattered pale caducous hairs, and at 



