408 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [DECEMBER 
in a few- (mostly 3-) flowered, more or less pubescent, simple 
corymbs: lateral pedicels longer than the intermediate ones, 
1.5-3.5 long, more or less pubescent or pilose: calyx obconic, 
pubescent, the segments glandular-serrate, 6-9" long, persistent 
or nearly so: corolla white, the divisions nearly round or a little 
broader than long: stamens normally 20, 5—7™" long: pistils 3-5, 
surrounded at the base with pale hairs: fruit, which ripens and 
falls after the middle of September, globose or depressed-globose, 
10-13™ broad, to—12™ high, yellow, orange-yellow or flushed 
with red, the flesh thin and firm ; cavity 3-5" broad and nearly 
as. deep, surrounded by the remnants of the stamens: nutlets 
3-5, but usually 4, hard and bony, the walls thick, 7-9™ long, 
4-6™" measured dorso-ventrally, with the back ridged and 
grooved and the lateral faces nearly plane: leaves thin to sub- 
coriaceous, sparsely pubescent when young, soon glabrous, 
yellowish-green on the upper surface, paler below. and displaying 
5-7 pairs of prominent veins; they are ovate, ovate-lanceolate 
or round-ovate, 2.5-12™ long, 1-6™ wide, or occasionally larger 
on vigorous shoots, acute at the apex, rounded or abruptly con- 
tracted at the base into a margined or winged, slightly glandular 
petiole, 5""-3.5™ long, the borders irregularly and doubly ser- 
rate and incisely lobed and the serratures minutely glandular- 
tipped: stipules linear to linear-lanceolate, glandular, or on 
strong shoots foliaceous, lunate, glandular-serrate, caducous. 
Crategus Sargenti is a remarkably distinct and showy species; 
especially in the autumn when the foliage assumes many lively 
tints of red and yellow. It inhabits the rocky woods and bluffs, 
or occasionally the rich, deep soil of the mountainous regions of 
northwestern Georgia, northern Alabama (extending 4s ag 
south as Birmingham), and southeastern Tennessee. The species 
belongs to an interesting and very natural group of several dis- 
tinct species of which no type has, so far as I have observed, 
been published. Many specimens of the related forms are aha 
served in herbaria under the names C. rotundifolia, C. glandulosa, 
C. coccinea, etc., titles which are, when correctly applied, asso- 
ciated with widely different plants. 
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