1902] NORTH AMERICAN TREES I1I 
calyx-tube prominent, with a broad deep cavity and elongated 
spreading lobes puberulous on the inner surface; flesh thin, 
green, dry and hard; nutlets 2 or 3, broad, prominently ridged 
with broad low ridges, light brown, ¥{ in. long. 
A tree in low moist ground sometimes 4o feet in height with a trunk a 
foot in diameter free of branches for 18 or 20 feet and covered with dark 
fissured scaly bark, stout wide-spreading branches forming a broad sym- 
metrical flat-topped head, and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by 
numerous dark oblong lenticels, orange-brown and villose when they first 
appear, dull red-brown and often slightly villose during their second season, 
becoming light dull gray-brown the following year, and armed with stout 
straight chestnut-brown ultimately dull gray spines 1 to 2 in. long. 
Marshall, Texas, common in low wet woods and on dry hills, W. M. 
Canby, B. F. Bush, and C.S. Sargent, April 19, 1901; Shreveport, Louisiana, 
W. M. Canby, B. F. Bush, and C. S. Sargent, April 21, 1901; Opalusas, 
Louisiana, C. S, Sargent, March, 1900, in bud only. 
Crataegus edita belongs to the small group of Crus-galli-like species 
represented by Crataegus berberifolia, from which it differs in its less tomentose 
lustrous thicker scabrate leaves which are gradually narrowed and acute and 
hot rounded at the broad apex, by its slightly villose not tomentose cymes 
" calyx, and by its smaller later-ripening dry green fruit. That of 
OTT genta 1s nearly globose and bright orange color with a bright 
i Crataegus fecunda, n. sp.— Leaves oblong-obovate to oval or 
s oadly ovate, acute or rarely rounded and short-pointed at the 
ae Sradually or abruptly narrowed below, coarsely and usually 
: ¥ serrate, with broad spreading glandular teeth except 
eek the entire obscurely ciliate base; when the flowers open 
poe green, lu 
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