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NAKED FLOWERED HAWTHORN, or APPLE 
HAW. 
CRATiEGUS jsstivalis, subspinosa, floribus prsecocibus, 
foliis oblongo-cuneiformibus vel ellipticis brevi-petiolatis 
apice subsinuato-dentatis angulatis vel inciso-crenaiis 
rarius trilobatis, junioribus tomentosis, demum glabris, 
subtus ad venis pubescentibus ; corymbis 3 ad 5-Jloris gla- 
bris, eglandulosis; stylis 4—5, fructibus maximis globosis 
rubris. 
Crat.egus sestivalis. Torrey and Gray, Flor. 1. p. 468. 
Crat-egus elliptica. Elliott, Sketch. 1. p. 549. 
Crat.egus opaca. Hook and Arnott, Compan. Botan. Magaz., 
vol. 1. p. 25. 
Mespilus sestivalis. Walter, Flor. Caroliniana, p. 148. 
This is another arborescent species of Hawthorn 
confined to the southern states of the Union, growing 
along the low wet banks of rivers and ponds, from South 
Carolina and Georgia to Florida; it grows also in 
Louisiana and Arkansas. In Florida it is already in 
flower in the early part of the month of March, and 
presents a very unusual appearance, as yet nearly desti- 
tute of leaves, or presenting only their unfolding silky 
buds. The flowers are nearly as large as apple blos- 
soms, and pure white. It becomes at length a tree of 
20 or 30 feet in height, branching from the base. The 
leaves are elliptical or oblong wedge-shaped, on the 
infertile branches often obovate, on short petioles, 
towards the summit sinuately toothed, angled, or irregu- 
larly crenate, rarely 3-lobed or cleft, quite whitely tomen- 
tose when young before expansion, at length glabrous, 
but clothed along the veins beneath with a brownish 
pubescence. The corymbs are 3 to 5 flowered, and 
