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soidal-pyriform, scarlet or dark red, about 8 mm. (%% inch) thick, 
flesh hard, thick. 
Distribution. Western New York and Pennsylvania to south- 
western Virginia, west to central Illinois. 
A small tree sometimes 8 m. (25 feet) high, with spreading branches 
forming a flat or round crown. ‘This species is intermediate be- 
tween Crus-Galli and punctata, and has been found as yet only 
in a region where both these species are known. 
I have seen specimens from the following counties: Clark (Deam); 
Gibson (Schneck); Hamilton (Mrs. C. C. Deam); Knox (Schneck); 
Vigo (Blatchley). 
3. Crategus punctata Jacquin. Larcr-rrurrep THorN. Dor- 
TED Haw. Plate 82. Bark grayish-brown, scaly; thorns light 
gray, 2-5 cm. (24-2 inches) long, straight; leaves obovate to oblong, 
2-8 em. (34-3 inches) long, 1-5 em. (14-2 inches) broad, dull gray- 
green and markedly impressed-veined above, pubescent, becoming 
nearly glabrous above when mature, acute or obtuse at the apex, 
sharply cuneate at the base; serrate, doubly serrate or lobed at the 
apex, subcoriaceous; petioles 1-2 cm. (%¢-34 inch) long, slightly 
winged above; corymbs tomentose or canescent, many flowered; 
flowers appear in June, about 2 em. (5/6 inch) wide, calyx lobes 
lanceolate-acuminate, entire, stamens about 20, anthers white or 
pink, styles and nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit ripens in October or 
November, green, yellow or red, short-ellipsoidal, 1.2-2.5 em. (4%-1 
inch) thick, flesh hard, thick, calyx lobes spreading. 
Distribution. Quebec to Pennsylvania, southeastern Minnesota, 
Iowa, Kentucky and south to the high Alleghenies. Well distrib- 
uted over Indiana. 
A small tree, sometimes 10 m. (85 feet) high, with distinctly hori- 
zontal branches and a broad, flat crown. 
Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Barthol- 
omew, Fulton and Gibson (Deam); Hamilton (Mrs. C. C. Deam); 
Howard, Jennings and Marion (Deam); Putnam (Grimes); Vigo 
(Blatchley); Vermillion and Wells (Deam). 
4. Crategus Margaretta Ashe. Jupce Brown’s THorn. Mrs. 
AsHE’s THorN. Plate 83. Bark dark grayish-brown; spines curved, 
2-4 em. (34-11% inches) long; leaves oblong-obovate or ovate, some- 
times broadly so, 2-6 em. (24-21% inches) long, 2-4 em. (34-14% 
inches) wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, cuneate or rounded at 
the base, serrate or doubly serrate with 2 or 3 pairs of acute or ob- 
tuse lobes towards the apex, glabrous when mature, dark green 
