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from its nearest relative, Crataegus coccinea, by its glandular petioles, its very gland- 
ular bractlets and calyx lobes, and its stout long spines. 
Type locality not ascertained. 
Crataegus sargenti Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 407. 1899.) 
An intricately branched tree rarely over 18 feet high, or more frequently a large 
shrub from 6 to 15 feet high, with one or several stems covered with an ashy gray, 
more or less scaly bark; branches spreading, armed with straight or curved spines 
1 to 2} inches long; leaves thin to subcoriaceous, slightly pubescent when young, 
soon smooth, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or round-cordate, 1 to 44 inches long and 
from 4 to 2 inches wide, acute, rounded, or abruptly contracted at the base into a 
wing-margined petiole, irregularly doubly serrate and iucisely lobed, the serratures 
tipped with ininute glands; stipules linear-lanceolate, glandular, or on vigorous 
shoots foliaceous and lunate; flowers in a few few-flowered, more or less pubescent 
corymbs, stamens normally 20, pistils 3 to 5; fruit globose or depressed-globose, 
nearly 4 inch in diameter, yellow t» orange, with a thin, firm flesh, and including 3 
to 5 bony, thick-walled nutlets. 
C. sargenti is a most distinct and showy species, belonging to a very natural group 
which in the herbaria are preserved under the names of C. rotundifolia, C. glandulosa, 
and C. coccinea, titles which correctly belong to widely different plants. 
Carolinian area. Northern Georgia (Rome) to southeastern Tennessee. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky woods and bluffs. DeKalb County (Beadle). 
Flowers about 1st of May when the leaves are almost fully grown. Fruit ripens 
and falls about the middle of September. 
Type locality: ‘Near Valleyhead, Ala.” 
Crataegus boyntoni Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 409. 1899. 
A tree seldom more than 18 feet high, or frequently a large branching shrub from 
6 to 12 feet high, the trunk from 6 to 9 feet in length and 4 to 8 inches in diameter, 
with stout ascending branches which form a narrow, occasionally a flat-topped head, 
the spines straight or curved, 1} to 22 inches long. Leaves yellowish green, paler 
beneath, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs along the midrib and larger veins, 
broadly ovate or oval, acute at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base into the 
margined glandular petiole, or on vigorous shoots deltoid-ovate, sharply and irreg- 
ularly serrate, doubly serrate, or incisely 5 to 7 lobed; stipules linear, glandular, 
caducous, or on strong shoots foliaceous and lunate, glandular-serrate; flowers large, 
from 9 lines to nearly 1 inch in diameter, borne on glabrous pedicels with one or 
two glandular bractlets, in short 4 to 10 Howered corymbs; stamens 10, anthers light 
yellow; pistils 3 to 5; fruit dull yellowish green to russet-red, depressed-globose, 
angled, about 1} inches long and 8 lines wide. 
Closely related to the last, but distinguished by the many-flowered glabrous 
corymbs and shorter stamens, and by the different habit of growth. Many speci- 
mens are preserved in herbaria, the greater part of which are also labeled C. coccinea, 
GC. glandulosa, or C. rotundifolia. C. rotundifolia of Britton and Brown’s Illustrated 
Flora is in part to be referred to this species. (The material collected by the writer 
near Greenville, Ala., is most likely to be united with it, which would extend its 
southern range to the Louisiana area. Mohr.) 
Carolinian area. Pennsylvania, Delaware to Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. 
AvaBaMA: Mountain region; banks of streams, and even in the shallow dry soil of 
uplands; copses and fields. Flowers before the middle of May; fruit ripens and 
falls early in October. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Biltmore, N. C.” 
Crataegus mollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele, Linnaca, 21:569. 1848. Downy Haw. 
Crataegus coccinea var. mollis Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1: 465. 1840. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,165. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2: 107. 
MEXICO. ee 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New England; Massachusetts west to Michigan, 
Minnesota, and Iowa, south to Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Upper division Coast Pine belt. Rich wooded banks, 
Cullman County. Hale County, Gallion. Clark County. Jackson County (Dr. 
Denny), April 12, 1852. Flowers white, April; fruit ripe October, crimson, A small 
tree, 20 to 25 feet high, sparsely scattered in the valleys of the mountain region, and 
more frequent in the prairies. 
! The descriptions of this and following species of Crataegus, with the accompany- 
ing notes, are mainly drawn from C. D. Beadle, Studies in Crataegus, Bot. Gazette, 
vol. 28, pp. 405 to 417. 1899. 
