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the lobes slightly haiiy on the inner surface, lanceolate, long-pointed, glandular- 

 toothed; stamens lo to 20; anthers pink; styles 3 to 5. The fruit is pear-shaped 

 or oblong, about 10 mm. thick, yellow or yellow-green, sometimes tinged with red; 

 the calyx-lobes are reflexed; the flesh is firm; it contains 3 to 5 nutlets, com- 

 monly 4, about 7 mm. long, strongly ridged on the back, the nest about 8 mm. 

 thick. 



12. WEEPING THORN — Oratsegns recBTva Beadle 



This species grows in dry, sandy soil about Ocala, Florida. It is a shrub, or 

 a low tree, 3 to 5 meters high, with drooping branches forming a broad crown; 



the bark is grayish brown, rough; 

 the twigs are woolly-hairy when 

 yoimg, reddish brown, and are 

 armed with many slender straight 

 spines 6 to 15 mm. long. 



The leaves are spatulate to ob- 

 ovate- wedge-shaped, 10 to 30 mm. 

 long, 5 to 20 mm. wide, sUghtly 

 hairy, particularly on the lower sur- 

 face when young, becoming smooth, 

 half-leathery, rounded or broadly 

 pointed, often 3-lobed at the apex, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, often 

 abruptly so, glandular-dentate; leaf- 

 stalks conspicuously glandular, long-hairy, becoming smooth, 5 to 15 mm. long. 

 The flowers are about 15 mm. wide, solitary, or in 2- or 3-flowered woolly- hairy 

 corymbs; calyx-lobes lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, nearly smooth, remotely glan- 

 dular-toothed; stamens about 20; 

 anthers pale yellow; styles 3 to 5. The 

 fruit ripens in August; it is pear-shaped, 

 7 to 9' mm. thick, red, calyx-lobes re- 

 curved; flesh thick and soft; nutlets 3 

 to 5, 6 to 7 mm. long, ridged on the 

 back, the nest 6 to 7 mm. thick. 



13. CUTHBERT'S THORN 

 Crataegus dispar Beadle 



Fig. 402. — Weeping Thorn. 



Cuthbert's thorn occurs in sandy 

 soil about Aiken and Trenton, South 

 Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia. It is 

 frequently a shrub, sometimes a small tree 6 to 8 meters high, with drooping 



Fig. 403. — Cuthbert's Thorn. 



