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Crataegus Texana Buckley, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1861: 454.— 
Leaves broadly ovate, acute or rarely rounded at the apex, 
cuneate or on leading shoots truncate or slightly cordate at the 
base, usually divided above the middle into four or five pairs of 
broad acute lobes, very coarsely and doubly glandular-serrate 
except toward the base ; when they first unfold covered above with 
short soft pale hairs and below with a thick coat of hoary tomen- 
tum, and at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark green and 
lustrous on the upper surface, pale and pubescent or tomentose 
on the lower surface particularly along the stout light-colored 
midribs and primary veins, and on the conspicuous secondary 
veins and reticulate veinlets, from 3 to 4 in. long, from 2% to 3 
in. wide; petioles stout, more or less winged above, deeply 
grooved, tomentose, ultimately nearly glabrous, from % to % 
in. long; stipules lunate, apiculate, often stipitate, coarsely ser- 
rate, from 4 to % in. long. Flowers 34 in. in diameter on 
| elongated slender pedicels in broad loose many-flowered tomen- 
} tose cymes; bracts and bractlets oblong to oblong-ovate, broad, 
acuminate, villose, sometimes % in. long, very conspicuous ; 
calyx-tube broadly obconic, coated with thick pale tomentum, 
the lobes gradually rounded from broad bases, acuminate, very 
coarsely glandular-serrate, villose with long matted hairs, reflexed 
after anthesis ; stamens 20; filaments'slender ; anthers large, dark 
red; styles 5. Fruit in broad drooping many-fruited tomentose 
ultimately nearly glabrous clusters, short-oblong or somewhat 
obovate, full and rounded at the ends, tomentose until nearly 
fully grown, at maturity bright scarlet, lustrous, marked by 
occasional large pale lenticels, puberulous toward the apex, from 
3% to 1 in. in length; calyx-cavity broad and deep, the lobes 
much enlarged, glandular-serrate, villose, dark red at the base 
on the upper side, usually erect, often deciduous ; flesh thick, 
yellow, sweet and edible; nutlets 5, thick, slightly grooved on 
, the back, from % to ¥% in. long. 
A tree often 30 ft. in height with a tall trunk sometimes a 
foot in diameter covered with dark closely appressed scales, 
Stout spreading branches forming a symmetrical round-topped 
