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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



conspicuously glandular, slightly puberulous, '-f' long; on vigorous shoots oblong- 

 obovate, often deeply and irregularly divided into broad acute lateral lobes, and 

 frequently l'-2' long and nearly as broad. Flowers f '-' in diameter, on slender 

 villose pedicels, in simple 3-5-flowered corymbs, with rose-colored and conspicuously 

 glandular bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, hairy toward the base, 

 with long scattered pale hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acu- 

 minate, glandular, with large dark red glands, and entire or coarsely serrate above 

 the middle; stamens 20; anthers pink; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening and falling late in 



August or early in September, oval or short-oblong, orange-red, about ^' long, with 

 soft flesh; calyx little enlarged, with recurved persistent lobes; nutlets 3-5, full and 

 rounded at the base, gradually narrowed and acute at the apex, rounded and ridged 

 on the back, with a broad low slightly grooved ridge, about ^' long. 



A tree, sometimes 25 high, with a trunk 8'-10' in diameter, covered with dark 

 sometimes nearly black deeply furrowed bark, stout pendulous branches forming a 

 broad shapely handsome head, and slender branchlets hoary-tomentose at first, 

 bright red-brown and puberulous at the end of their first season, becoming dark 

 gray-brown, and armed with few slender straight spines l^'-l^' long; or often a 

 large shrub. 



Distribution. Slopes of low hills, northwestern Georgia; common in the neigh- 

 borhood of Rome. 



104. Crataegus visenda, Beadl. 



Leaves ovate, obovate, or orbicular, short-pointed and acute or occasionally 

 broad and rounded at the apex, concave-cuneate and gradually narrowed at the 

 mostly entire base, finely serrate above, with rounded teeth, glandular, with bright 

 red glands, and divided above the middle into short acute lobes, nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of March, and then glabrous with the exception 

 of a few short pale hairs on the two surfaces near the base of the midribs, and 

 at maturity thin and firm in texture, bright yellow-green and lustrous above, pale 

 below, glabrous, 1 '-!' long, f'-l' wide, with slender midribs, and thin primary veins 

 extending very obliquely to the points of the lobes, turning yellow, orange, or brown 

 in the autumn; their petioles slender, broadly wing-margined above, conspicuously 



