XV. FLAVÆ.
CONSPECTUS OF THE ARBORESCENT SPECIES.
Stamens 20. Anthers pink or purple. Corymbs usually 3—6-flowered. Leaves elliptic to broad-ovate, yellow-green; fruit dark orange-brown.120. [C. flava] (C). Leaves ovate to obovate or orbicular, bright yellow-green; fruit obovoid, dark orange color with a red cheek.121. [C. visenda] (C). Leaves obovate or ovate, dark green; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, red or orange-red.122. [C. ignava] (C). Corymbs 1—5-flowered. Leaves broad-obovate to nearly orbicular, bright green; fruit globose or depressed-globose, bright red.123. [C. consanguinea.] Leaves obovate, bright green; fruit ellipsoidal to short-oblong, orange-red; anthers pink.124. [C. tristis.] Anthers yellow (doubtful in 128, 133). Leaves yellow-green. Leaves 3-nerved. Leaves obovate-cuneate, often 3-lobed at apex; fruit obovoid to subglobose, bright orange-red and lustrous; corymbs tomentose.125. [C. floridana.] Leaves obovate; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, dull brownish yellow; corymbs glabrous.126. [C. lacrimata.] Leaves with numerous primary veins. Leaves thin. Leaves scabrate above at maturity, obovate, rounded or abruptly short-pointed at apex; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, bright orange-red.127. [C. Ravenelii] (C). Leaves smooth above at maturity. Leaves obovate to obovate-cuneiform; fruit subglobose, bright red.128. [C. senta] (A). Leaves obovate to oval or orbicular; fruit subglobose to ellipsoidal, orange-red or red and orange.129. [C. annosa] (C). Leaves subcoriaceous. Flowers in 3—5-flowered corymbs. Leaves obovate; fruit globose or depressed-globose, orange-yellow with a red cheek.130. [C. panda] (C). Leaves obovate to oblong-ovate, minutely serrate; fruit globose, red or yellow.131. [C. integra] (C). Flowers in 1 or 2-flowered corymbs; leaves spathulate; fruit obovoid, red.132. [C. recurva] (C). Leaves conspicuously blue-green, broad-ovate to orbicular; fruit subglobose to short-oblong, light red, puberulous at the ends.133. [C. dispar] (C). Stamens 10; anthers yellow; leaves broad-obovate to oval or rhombic, dark yellow-green; fruit subglobose, dull orange-red, often slightly villose at the ends.134. [C. aprica] (C).
120. [Cratægus flava] Ait.
Leaves elliptic to broad-obovate, acute or rarely rounded at apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the glandular base, and coarsely doubly serrate above with broad straight or incurved teeth tipped with large dark red stipitate glands, when they unfold bronze color, villose above with short pale caducous hairs most abundant near the base of the midrib and pubescent below on the midrib and veins, about half grown when the flowers open from the 10th to the 20th of April, and at maturity membranaceous, yellow-green, usually about 2′ long and 1½′ wide, with a slender yellow midrib and 3 or 4 pairs of primary veins usually puberulous on the under side and only slightly impressed above; petioles slender, glandular, winged nearly to the base, generally more or less villose, after midsummer often light red on the lower side, and about ½′ in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots frequently 3′ long and 2′ wide, and sometimes broad-ovate, 3-lobed or divided into 2 or 3 pairs of lateral lobes, their petioles 1′—1½′ long, broadly winged and conspicuously glandular, and foliaceous lunate or elliptic coarsely glandular-serrate stipules. Flowers about ¾′ in diameter, on short slender pedicels, in few-flowered simple or compound slightly villose compact corymbs, with lanceolate acute coarsely glandular-serrate bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes wide, acute, usually laciniately divided, very glandular; stamens 20; anthers large, dark rose color. Fruit ripening early in October and soon falling, in few-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, dark orange-brown, ½′—⅝′ long, and ⅓′—½′ in diameter; calyx prominent, with a long narrow tube, and enlarged closely appressed lobes often deciduous before the fruit ripens; flesh thick, orange color, dry and mealy; nutlets 5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, ridged and deeply grooved on the back with a high narrow ridge, about ½′ long.
A tree, 15°—20° high, with a tall trunk 8′—10′ in diameter, covered with thin dark brown bark tinged with red and divided into narrow rounded ridges, stout ascending branches forming an open and somewhat irregular head sometimes 20° across, and slender slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets dark green deeply tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dull red-brown or orange-brown during their first season, darker the following year, and ultimately dark gray-brown, and armed with thin nearly straight bright chestnut-brown spines ¾′—1¼′ long.
Distribution. Dry sandy soil on the sand hills of Summerville, near Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, and at River Junction, Gadsden County, Florida.
121. [Cratægus visenda] Beadl.
