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EOSACEAE (rose FAMILY) 



fruit suhglobose, about 8 mm. thick, dark cherry-red, shining, villous ; nutlets 

 usually 2-3, 5-7 mm. long, 2. 5-3.5 mm. thick. (0. coccinea, var. Dudley.) — 



7S3. C. macracantha. 



N. S. (C. B. liohinson) to Minn., s. in the mts. to 

 Va. Fl. May ; ir. Sept. Fig. 783. Var. rhom- 

 bif6lia (Sarg.) Eggleston is a form with more 

 villous corymbs and'smaller fruit. — With the typi- 

 cal form. Var. occidentAhs (Britton) Eggleston. 

 Leaves ovate to broadly oval, sometimes 8 cm. 

 wide. {G. Colorado As\\Q\ C. color adensisl^elson.) 



— Frequent, s. Man. to e. Kan., Col., and Ida. 

 Var. succulenta (Schrad.) Eggleston. Stamens 



about 20 ; fruit larger than in the typical form 



— Occasional, with the typical form. 



Var. neofluvialis (Ashe) Eggleston. Stamens 

 10-20; anthers small; fruit small. — Occasional, 

 w. N. E. to Wise, and Pa. , and s. in the mts. 



G3. C. Chapmani (Beadle) Ashe, Leaves 

 rhombic-ovate, 4-11 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, acute 

 or acuminate, those on vegetative shoots obtuse 

 and more entire than the others, pubescent on both 

 sides, becoming scabrate above, subcoriaceous, dull 

 green ; petioles pubescent ; corymbs white-tomen- 

 tose ; flowers about 1.5 cm. icide; stamens 10-20, 

 usually about 20 ; anthers small ; styles 2-4 ; fruit 

 globose or subglobose, 8-10 mm. long, bright red ; 

 flesh yellow ; nutlets usually 2-3, about 5 mm, 

 long, 2.5 mm. thick, slightly ridged on the back. 

 (C. tomentosa, var. microcarpa Chapm. ; C. tomen- 

 — Frequent, s. Ky. (C L. Boynton) and Va. to n. 



tosa., var. Chapmani Beadle.) 

 Ga. Fl. May ; f r. Sept. 



Var. PIuken§tii Eggleston. Fruit pyriform to ellipsoidal, 1-1.5 cm. long, 

 orange-red, villous; flesh yellow; nutlets usually 2-3, more strongly ridged 

 on the back, 5-7 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. thick. 

 (C. leucophleos Moench? O. tomentosa of the 

 Linnean herbarium and auth., not of the Lin- 

 nean description.) — Common, s. Ont. to w. 

 N. J. , w. to s. Minn, and e. Kan. ; and in the 

 mts. to Ga. Fl. June ; fr. Sept. 



64. C. missouri^nsis Ashe. Leaves ellipti- 

 cal-ovate, 2-7 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, sub- 

 coriaceous, simply or doubly serrate, rough 

 pubescent and shining above., pale-to mentose 

 beneath; petioles 5 mm. long; corymbs 3-8- 

 flowered, densely white-tomentose ; flowers 

 1.2-1.5 cm. wide; stamens about 20; anthers 

 pink ; styles 3-5 ; fruit subglobose or pyriform, 

 about 1 cm. thick, bright red, slightly villous ; 

 flesh sweet; nutlets 5.5-6.5 mm. long, with 

 large deep pits on the ventral faces ; nest of 

 nutlets 6-7 mm. thick ; thorns straight, slender, 

 4-7 cm. long. — Rocky bluffs, s. Mo.; Tenn. 

 (^Ashe). Fl. May; fr. Sept. 



§ 18. DOUGLASIAnaE [Loud.] Sarg. Leaves 

 ovate to obovate, acute or obtuse at the 

 apex, cuneate at the base, doubly serrate 

 and lobed except near the base, dark green 

 and pubescent above {particularly along 

 the veins), glabrous behm, subcoriaceons ; petioles slightly ivinged, pubescent 

 and glandular; corymbs glabrous or nearly so; flowers about 1.5 cm. wide^ 



784. C. Douglasli. 



