16. Crataegus fílipes Ashe. Miss Beckwith's Thorn. (Crataegus silvicola var. Beckwithae (Sargent) Eggleston). [Plate 92.] Spines numerous, curved, chestnut-brown, 2.5 to 6 cm. (1-21/2 inches) long; bark slightly scaly; leaves 2-7 cm. (3/4-23/4 inches) long, 2-6 cm. (3/4-21/2 inches) wide; leaves ovate, acute or acuminate at apex, rounded, truncate or on vegetative shoots cordate at base, serrate or doubly serrate, lower pair of acuminate lobes often deeply cut, membranaceous, glabrous; corymbs glabrous; flowers about 2 cm. (3/4 inch) broad; stamens about 10; anthers pink; styles and nutlets 3-5; fruit globose or compressed-globose, cherry-red, 8-10 mm. (1/3 inch) thick, ripens in October.
CRATÆGUS RUGOSA Ashe. Fretz's Thorn. (× 1/2.)
CRATÆGUS FILIPES Ashe. Miss Beckwith's Thorn. (× 1/2.)