TREES AND SHRUBS: 



MALUS FRAGRAX8, Tar. ELONGATA, Rehder, n. rar. 



Leaves generally oblong-ovate, gradually n 

 broadly cuneate, incisely serrate or slightly lobed.from i 

 tose when unfolding, soon becoming glabi 

 smaller and usually incisely serrate; on the end of very vigorous shoot* ovate, lobed and slightly pubeaeent beneath, particularly on 

 the veins. Outside of calyx and the inflorescence quite glabrous. Fruit depressed-globose, from 15 to 3 INtimitim in diameter. 



A shrub or small tree, sometimes G metres tall, of straggling habit ; branchlets slightly pubescent while young, becoming dark 

 purplish brown and lustrous toward the end of their first season, older branches dark grayish brown, unarmed or with a few short 

 spines. Winter-buds glabrous or nearly so, dark reddish brown. Flowers appearing aft<>r the wii 



North Carolina: Highlands, Macon County, T. (,. H.irb,*,*,, May _'<'. 1 

 Macon County, September 5 and 6, 1910 (Nos. l'JS, KU, 133). West Virginia: near Klkm*. lUndolph County, 1 }.<: :>r, 

 August 24, 1907. Georgia : Rabun County, T. G. Harbison, Oetober I, 1910 

 B. H. Slavin, May 23 and September 22, 1911 (No. IS); GtMaWfM, On: H 

 19 and September 20, 1911 (No. 14); Seneca .Inaction, Ontario County. 



Salamanca and Olean, Cattaraugus County, B. H. Slarr,, May 2", 191 1 t No. 11 i ; I Mean, fattaraugu* Count) , /.. // >..;.•.. May 

 23 and September 18, 1911 (No. 10). 



This variety is easily distinguished from the type by its narrowly triangular and distinctly incised serrate or lobed leaTea The 

 leaves on specimens from western New York are usually somewhat broader and less triangular in outline and approach in this 

 respect the type of the species. 



4. Malus platycarpa, Rehder, see p. 227. 



5. Malus lancifolia, Rehder, Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, ii. 141, t. 158 (1911). 



This species ranges from northeastern Missouri through Indiana to Pennsylvania and North Carolina. 



In the original description of this species no specimen was designated as the tjpa, and the specimens from Seranton, Pennsyl- 

 vania, being placed first on account of the geographical ■ IIM g wm— I ol the localities i 

 intended type, but the drawings and the description were chiefly based on the specimens from Coartn. 

 most complete ; and these ought to be considered the type of the species. Many of the 

 were fragmentary and may possibly belong to other species or represent variations ol 

 The following specimens of the Arnold Arboretum Herbarium can be considered as rep. 



Missouri: Courtney, Jackson County, B. F. Bush, April 29, 190G (No. 8800, type 

 (without No.), July 10, 1911 (No. 6468), August 19, 1911 ( No. 6494), May S, 1911 (» J -nee. Mm 



County, June 10, 1894 (No. 281). Indiana: Delaware County, C ('. /V«m, August 19. I'.'l 1 (No 97'.*' 



County, T. C. Porter, May 10, 1872; near Hartstown, Crawford County, 0. E. and Orm K. I* ft, M:«> » 



ford Springs, Bedford County, B. H. Smith, May 15, 1913. North GinUm : Mil Aitol EH ■, Bllimll County, T. G. Harbmm, 

 April 29, 1912 (No. 521); Biltmore, Buncombe County, T. G. Harbuon, April 29, 191- 

 6. Malus coronaria, Miller, Diet. ed. 8, No. 2 (1768). 

 Pyrrn coronaria, Linnaeus, Spec. 480 (1753). 

 Pyrus angustifolia, Aiton, HorL Kew. ii. 176 (1789). — Lindley, Bat. R,<j. xiv. t. 120*.— Iorrcy & I. ray, 



471. -Sargent, SilvaN. Am. iv. 75, t. 169. 

 Malus angustifolia, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 2£ 

 Malus sempervirens, Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. 



Willdenow, Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 35 (1813). 

 -. arxjiisti/hlifi. W.-M/ig, Unna-a, xxxviii. 41 (1874). 

 me, Fl. den S*rm, xxiii. 186 (1890). 

 Malus microcarpa sempervirens, Carriere, Pommiers Mkrocarpes, IM>, f. 1« ( ss - V 

 This species is distributed from the coast region of Virgin la to I ™J ^ ' |' ( 



sippi, and in Louisiana is replaced by the variety puberula. It is n jnTmnitn MaTTlTl* 



is hardly possible to know from Linnams's description, winch consists only ot he »..p s on. » 



he had in mind; but Clayton's specimen upon which he based his specves » still proved to th- MM llta - 

 sen s the species later called P,™ an^,/^ by Aiton, which, moreover is the only spectes g-^stc^ 

 m ade his collections. It may seem somewhat doubtful whether Miller's Malus coronana » the same spe es , 

 Tynonym Malus Sylvestns virginiana from his Catalogue of Trees Shrubs, and Plan, pu bUshed ,n ,30 a 



LoJtifolia Aiton had not been introduced into England, according to Alton, who gives 17-4 as the 

 ^PyrZ coronaria and 1750 that of P. angustifoUa. Miller, however gives ne.ther to to. ^en« 



hlS . ^ m .. " ™ . 4 M i,- 0^8 his species on Pyrus coronaria of Linnsens we must cons.der h.s speaei 



,f his Malus coronaria as a plant tender in Eugland, which seems to indicate 



3 CORONARIA, "V 



, oblong to oblong-elliptic, acute at the ends, rarely obtuse 



broad, slightly appresaed-\ 



