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long; 2-6 cm. wide, acute, broadly cuneate, doubly serrate with rather coarse 

 teeth and with 3-4 pairs of acute lobes, glabrous ; corymbs glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent ; flowers about 2 cm. wide ; calyx-lobes slightly villous inside ; sta- 

 mens 5-10 ; styles 2-4 ; fruit 1 cm. thick, red ; flesh yellow, dry, sweet; niUlHs 

 usually 2-3, d-7 nmi. long ; nest of nutlets 7-9 mm. thick. ( C. glandulosa Ait. ; 

 G. coccinea, var. rotundifolia Sarg. ; O. Dodgei Ashe.) — N. S. to s. Minn., «. to 

 n. 111., and in the AUeghenies to Va. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. Fio. 775. 

 , Var. BicknSllii Eggleston. Leaves somewhat sharply lobed toward the apex ; 

 calyx-lobes long, laciniate, persistent on the fruit ; nutlets usually 4-5. — Nan- 

 tucket I., Mass. Fl. May ; fr. Sept. 



Var. Faxbni (Sarg.) Eggleston. Leaves, corymbs, and fruit pubescent. (C. 

 coccinea Linnean herbarium, in part.) — Completely intergrading with the 

 typical form and of the same range. Fr. Aug., Sept. 



Var. chrysocdrpa (Ashe) Eggleston. Leaves slightly smaller and fruit yel- 

 low-red ; otherwise like the preceding variety. (O. Sheridana Nelson.) —Cook 

 Co., Minn. (MacMillan), to Col. and Assina. 



29. C. Jondsae Sarg. Leaves elliplical-ovate, 4-10 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, 

 acute or obtuse, cuneate, glabrous except along the veins beneath, the lobes acute 

 and tips reflexed ; petioles slightly pubescent, 3-5 cm. long; corymbs somewhat 

 villous; floiocrs about 2.5 cm. wide; calyx villous, its lobes linear, acuminate, 

 glabrous outside, slightly pubescent inside ; stamens about 10 ; anthers large, 

 pink; styles 2-3 ; fruit short-ellipsoidal to pyriform, about 1.5 cm. thick, bright 

 carmine-red, slightly pubescent ; flesh thick, yellow ; calyx-lobes long, ap- 

 pressed; nutlets usually 3, about 9 mm. long ; nest of nutlets about 8 mm. 

 thick. — Mt. Desert L and adjacent coast to Falmouth, Me. (Chamberlain'). 

 Fl. June ; fr. Oct. 



§ 9. MICROCArpaE Loud. Leaves spatulate to oblanceolate, S-35 mm. 



long, 4-20 mm. wide, acute or rounded and sometimes S-5-lobed at the apex, 



sharply cuneate into a winged petiole, crenate-serrate, dark green and 

 slightly villous along the veins above when young, 

 then glabrate, membranaceous ; floivers in many- 

 Jlowered glabrous corymbs, about \ c«i. wide ; calyx- 

 lobes deltoid, entire ; stamens about 20 ; anthers red; 

 styles .3-5 ; fruit globose to subglobose, red, 4-6 mm. 

 thick, with reflexed calyx-lobes and dry mealy flesh ; 

 nutlets 3-5, slightly ridged on the hack, 3-4.5 mm. 

 long, bare at the apex; nest of nutlets 3.5-4.5 mm. 

 thick; shrith or small tree, 6-8 to. high; branches 

 upright and spreading ; bark grayish-brown, slightly 



^^^^ „ scaly ; twigs reddish-brown, glabrous ; thorns sparse, 



tj ^^ ^^ straight, 3-4 cm. long. 



T I 30. C. spathulata Michx. The only species of the 



776 C spathulata Section. — Moist rich soil of the coastal region, Va. to 



Fla. and Tex. ; also s. Ark. and s. e. Okla. Fig. 776. 



§ 10. APIIF6lIAB Loud. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 1-4 cm. long, 

 1-4 cm. wide, acute, slightly cordate to cuneate at the base, pinnately 5-7- 

 lobed, simply or doubly serrate, pilose above when young, often glabrate, 

 pilose beneath, especially along the veins, membranaceous ; petioles 2.5-5 

 cm. long, tomentose ; flowers about 1.6 cm. wide, in 3-l2-floioered villous 

 corymbs; calyx-lobes- lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous outside, 

 slightly pubescent inside ; stamens about 20 ; anthers dark red; styles 1-3; 

 fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, 4-7 mm. long, scarlet, slightly pubescent with reflexed 

 calyx-lobes and thin firm flesh; nutlets commonly 2, 5-6.5 mm. long, smooth 

 on the back, bare at the apex; nest 3-3.6 mm. thick, with no sinus between 

 the nutlets; shrubs or small trees, 2-6 m. high, with nearly horizontal 

 bj'anches and smooth gray bark; twigs light red, long-tomentose but gla- 

 brate; thorns few, chest nut-brow u, 2.5-4 cm. long, straight. 



