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of flowering: May 13, 1889; April 19, 1909; April 

 24, 1916. 



102. Crataegus phaenopyrum (L. f.) Medic. [C. cor- 



data Ait.] Washington Thorn. 



Leaves 1*4-2 inches long and about the same width, 

 usually distinctly three-lobed and somewhat resemb- 

 ling a maple leaf, toothed, smooth except for a few 

 white hairs along the veins of the upper surface 

 when young; flowers several together near the ends 

 of long peduncles; fruits scarlet, globose, small, less 

 than *4 i n °b in diameter. Rich damp soil of the 

 Piedmont section, extending up the streams into the 

 mountains; not very common; much cultivated and 

 very handsome. Flowers about the middle of June. 

 Examples : trees, among other species, in woods sev- 

 eral hundred yards beyond the Durham County line 

 on the Durham road. 



103. Crataegus Chapmani (Beadle) Ashe. Chapman 



Thorn. 



Leaves ovate to obovate, 1^-4 inches long, 1^-3 

 inches wide, jagged toothed and sometimes slightly 

 lobed, upper surface hairy when young, hairy below ; 

 flowers many in a cluster; stalks hairy, calyx lobes 

 glandular-serrate and hairy; fruits in many fruited, 

 drooping clusters, bright red, subglobose to globose, 

 about V 3 inch in diameter; seeds with hollows on 

 their inner faces. It occurs along the streams in the 

 mountain region. 



