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Malus glabrata Rehder. Crab Apple. 



Range. — Western Noith Carolina (near Biltmore, Buncombe County; Jack- 

 son and Macon Counties). Range imperfecta known at present. 



NAME IN USE 



Crab Apple 



Malus coronaria (Linnaeus) Miller.' 



Sweet Crab Apple. 



Range. — From western New York through southern Ontario, Ohio, southern 

 Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and southern Wisconsin and southward to Missouri 

 (Jackson and Butler Counties), Pennsylvania northern Delaware, and in the 

 Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly, and by some authors still, designated 

 as Pyrus coronaria Linnaeus. 



NAMES IN USE 



American Crab (R. I., N. J., Del., Pa., 



111., Ohio, Ontario, Mich.). 

 Sweet-scented Crab (Mass., Del., Pa., 



N. C, 111., Ohio). 

 Crab Apple (Ky., Mo., 111., Ohio). 

 Wild Crab (N. Y., 111., Ind., Wis., Mo.). 



Malus coronaria elongata Rehder. 



Crab (W. Va., N. C, Wis.). 

 Fragrant Crab. 

 Garland Tree (lit.). 

 Sweet Crab Apple. 

 Wild Sweet Crab (lit.). 



Sweet Crab Apple. 



Range. — Virginia (Peak Mountain, Pulaski County); North Carolina (vicin- 

 ity of Highlands, Macon County) ; West Virginia (near Elkins and White Sulphur 

 Springs); southern Ohio (Lorain County); Georgia (Rabun County); New York 

 (Erie and Ontario Counties; also near Olean and between Salamanca and Olean, 

 Cattaraugus County) ; southern Illinois (Richland County, in the region of Olney — 

 fide Robt. Ridgway). 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Malus elongata Ashe. 



NAME IN USE 



Sweet Crab Apple 



Malus bracteata Kehder. 



Crab Apple. 



Range. — Kentucky (Ohio County); Tennessee; Missouri (St. Louis and Dunk- 

 lin Counties); North Carolina (Buncombe, Macon, and Bladen Counties); Georgia 

 (Rabun and Richmond Counties); Florida (Gadsden County). 



name in use 



Crab Apple 



Malus platycarpa Rehder. 44 



Crab Apple. 



Range. — Known now only from Ohio (vicinity of Youngstown, Mahoning 

 County); Kentucky (vicinity of Olympia, Bath County); West Virginia (Mercer 

 Springs, Mercer County) ; North Carolina (vicinity of Franklin, Macon County) . 



NAME IN USE 



Crab Apple 



« See footnote 42. Render's analysis (1. c.) of the technical synonymy of the Sweet Crab showed the 

 latter to be without a scientific name, which he supplied when he named it Malus fragram, in 1913. 



« A variety of this crab-tree is Malus platycarpa Hoopesii Rehder, long known only in cultivation, lately 

 has been found in a wild state in southern Illinois (Richland Countv) bv Robt. Ridgway. A single tree, 

 originally from the nursery of Hoopes Brothers and Thomas, West Chester, Pa., is growing in the Arnold 

 Arboretum, near Boston, Mass. (Alfred Rehder, op. cit , II, Pt. Ill, 142; Pt IV 227 1911 ) 



