480 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



with lanceolate straight or falcate glandular bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, villose particularly toward the base, the lobes narrow, elongated, acuminate, 

 nearly glabrous, coarsely and irregularly glandular-serrate; stamens 20; styles 3-6, 



surrounded at the base by a broad ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit ripening and 

 falling at the end of September or early in October, on slender slightly hairy 

 elongated pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, globose, bright red, ' |' in 

 diameter; calyx enlarged, with closely appressed lobes; flesh yellow, dry and mealy; 

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

 grooved on the back, about \' long. 



Distribution. Abandoned fields and open Pine woods near Asheville, North 

 Carolina, at elevations of about 2200 above the level of the sea. 



110. Crateegus panda, Beadl. 



Leaves obovate, rounded and short-pointed or abruptly narrowed and acute at 

 the broad occasionally slightly lobed apex, concave-cuneate and glandular at the 



entire base, and finely serrate above, with minute incurved glandular teeth, when 

 they unfold tinged with red and sparingly villose, nearly fully grown when the 



