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Distribution. — Western New England to central Michigan and 

 south to Pennsylvania and southern Indiana. 



A shrub or tree sometimes 9 meters (30 feet) high, with irregular 

 ascending branches. 



Specimens have lieen seen from Perry County, Deam's No. 27104. 



17. Crataegus Gattingeri Ashe. (Crataegus coccineavar. oligandra 

 Torrey and Gray). Dr. Clapp's Thokn. Gattinger's Thorn. Plate 

 93. Spines numerous, 2.5-6 cm. (1-2 inches) long; leaves narrowly ovate 

 to deltoid, 2.5-6 cm. (1-21/2 inches) long, 2-5 cm. (3^-2 inches) wide, 

 acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, serrate 

 or doubly serrate, lobed towards the apex, membranaceous, glabrous, 

 dark green above; petioles glabrous, 2-3 cm. (^4-1 J^ inches) long; 

 coryml)s glabrous, many-flowered; flowers appear in May, about 2 

 cm. (84 inch) broad; stamens 10-20; anthers small, pink; styles and 

 nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit ripens in October, globose, angular, red, 

 slightly wax3', 0.8-1.2 cm. (I3-I2 inch) thick, flesh hard; calyx tube 

 prominent, the lobes triangular, spreading. 



Distribution. — Southern Pennsjdvania and southern Indiana to 

 West Virginia and central Tennessee. 



Shrub oi- small tree sometimes 4.5 m. (15 feet) high, with ascending, 

 irregular Ijranches. 



Specimens seen from: Floyd (Dr. Clapp, before 1840); Knox 

 (Schneck); Peri'y (Deam); Steuben (Deam); Wells (Deam). 



18. Crataegus prviinosa (Wendland) K. Koch. Waxy-fruited 

 Thorx. Plate 94. Bark dark brown; spines numerous, slender, 3-6 

 cm. (Ii4'-2i'2 inches) long; leaves elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, 

 2.5-6 cm. (1-21,^ inches) long and wide, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 abruptly cuneate, rounded or occasionally cordate at the base, serrate 

 or doul)ly serrate with 3 or 4 pairs of broad acute lobes towards the 

 apex, l)lue-green, glabrous, membranaceous; petioles 2 or 3 cm. (3,^ 

 II4 inches) long, glabrous; corymbs glabrous, many-flowered; 

 flowers appear in May, about 2 cm. (5/6 hich) broad; stamens 10-20; 

 anthers pink or sometimes yellow or white; styles and nutlets 4 or 5; 

 calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, entire, slightly serrate at the base; 

 fruit ri]iens in Gctober, depressed-globose to short-ellipsoidal, strongly 

 angled, waxy, apple green, becoming scarlet or purple, 1.2-1.5 cm. 

 0'2-% hich), thick, firm, yellow, sweet; calyx tube prominent, the 

 lobes spreading, persistent. 



Distribution. — Kocky, open woods, western New England to 

 Michigan and south to North Carolina and Missouri. Well distributed 

 in Indiana. 



