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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



and foliaceous lunate or elliptical coarsely glandular-serrate stipules. Flowers 

 about f in diameter, on short slender pedicels, in few-flowered simple or compound 

 slightly villose compact corymbs, with lanceolate acute coarsely glandular-serrate 

 bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube broadly obconic and glabrous, the lobes wide, acute, 

 usually laciniately divided, very glandular; stamens 20; anthers large, purple. 

 Fruit ripening early in October and soon falling, in few-fruited drooping clusters, 

 short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, dark orange-brown, ^'-f' long, ' ^' 

 wide; calyx prominent, with a long narrow tube, and enlarged closely appressed lobes 

 often deciduous before the fruit ripens; flesh thick, orange color, dry and mealy; 

 nutlets 5, ridged and gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, ridged and deeply 

 grooved on the back, with a high narrow ridge, about \' long. 



A tree, 15-20 high, with a tall trunk 8'-10' in diameter, covered with thin dark 

 brown bark tinged with red and divided into narrow rounded ridges, stout ascending 

 branches forming an open and somewhat irregular head sometimes 20 across, and 



slender slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets dark green deeply tinged with red when 

 they first appear, becoming dull red-brown or orange-brown during their first season, 

 darker the following year, and ultimately dark gray-brown, and armed with thin 

 nearly straight bright chestnut-brown spines f '-1^' long. 



Distribution. Dry sandy soil on the sand hills of Summerville, west of the city 

 of Augusta, Georgia, and at River Junction, Florida. 



102. Cratcegus consanguinea, Beadl. 



Leaves broadly ovate, nearly orbicular, occasionally oval or rhomboidal, acute 

 and generally short-pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate or 

 sometimes rounded at the entire base, finely and often doubly serrate, with glandular 

 teeth, and frequently irregularly divided above the middle into short acute lobes, 

 nearly fully grown when the flowers open at the end of March or early in April, and 

 then very thin, blue-green, slightly villose, especially on the midribs and veins, and 

 at maturity thin but firm in texture, bright green, glabrous with the exception of a 

 few hairs on the under side of the slender midribs, and thin primary veins extend- 

 ing very obliquely toward the end of the leaf, about V long, f '-f ' wide, and on 

 vigorous shoots l'-2' long and wide; their petioles slender, glandular, wing-mar- 



