ROSACES 



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early in October, on short thick pedicels, in few-fruited drooping or spreading clus- 

 ters, globose to short-oblong, bright orange-red, marked by occasional dark dots, 

 puberulous at the ends, %'-%' in diameter; calyx prominent, with enlarged spread- 

 ing and appressed lobes; flesh thick, yellow, subacid; nutlets 5, narrowed and acute 

 at the ends, ridged on the back, with a narrow elevated ridge, \' long. 



A tree, 25-30 high, with a trunk often 14' or 15' in diameter, covered with thick 

 dark brown bark deeply divided into narrow interrupted ridges broken on the sur- 

 face into short thick plate-like scales, heavy ascending or spreading branches forming 

 an open irregular head, and stout zigzag branchlets thickly coated at first with hoary 



tomentum, dark purple or red-brown and pubescent during their first summer, be- 

 coming dark red-brown and glabrous the following season, and armed with thick 

 straight dull gray-brown spines usually about !' long. 



Distribution. Sand hills near Aiken, South Carolina, and in Summerville near 

 Augusta, Georgia. 



109. Crataegus senta, Beadl. 



Leaves obovateorobovate-cuneiform, acute or sometimes rounded and frequently 

 slightly divided into several short acute lobes at the broad apex, gradually narrowed 

 from above the middle to the entire base, and serrate or doubly serrate above, with 

 incurved conspicuously glandular teeth, when they unfold often dark red, covered 

 above with long pale caducous hairs and villose below along the midribs and veins, 

 nearly fully grown when the flowers open from the 1st to the 10th of May and then 

 bright yellow-green and almost glabrous with the exception of the persistent tufts 

 of pale hairs in the axils of the veins, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark 

 green and lustrous above, paler below, usually about \\' long and 1' wide, with 

 orange-colored midribs, generally 3 pairs of slender primary veins extending 

 obliquely to the points of the lobes, and dark conspicuous reticulate veinlets, turning 

 red, yellow, or brown in the autumn; their petioles slender, glandular, wing-margined 

 above, at first tomentose, becoming pubescent or nearly glabrous, about |^ long; on 

 vigorous shoots broadly ovate, often nearly orbicular, more deeply lobed, with broad 

 rounded or acute lobes, 2'-2^' in diameter, their stipules lunate, coarsely glandular- 

 dentate, sometimes ^' long. Flowers |' in diameter, on slender elongated pedicels 

 coated with long matted pale hairs, in lax compound 3-6-flowered hairy corymbs, 



