. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 31. Crataegus nitida (Engelm.) Sargent. Shin- ing Thorn. Fig. 2365. Crataegus viridis nitida Engelm.; Britton & Brown, 111. FI. 2 ; 242. 1897. Crataegus nitida Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31: 231. 1901. A tree, sometimes 30° high, with ascending and spreading branches forming a broad irregular crown. Spines occasional, i'-2' long; leaves oblong-ovate to oval, I r-3' lo
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 31. Crataegus nitida (Engelm.) Sargent. Shin- ing Thorn. Fig. 2365. Crataegus viridis nitida Engelm.; Britton & Brown, 111. FI. 2 ; 242. 1897. Crataegus nitida Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31: 231. 1901. A tree, sometimes 30° high, with ascending and spreading branches forming a broad irregular crown. Spines occasional, i'-2' long; leaves oblong-ovate to oval, I r-3' long, J'-2i' wide, acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate or twice serrate with acute lobes towards the apex, dark green, shining above, paler beneath, glabrous ; corymbs many-flowered ; flow- ers 6"-io" broad; stamens about 20; anthers light yellow; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; styles and nutlets 3-5; fruit globose to short-ellipsoid, dark dull red, 3"-5" thick; nutlets small, ridged on the back. Bottom-lands, southern Indiana and Illinois. May ; fruit ripe October. 32. Crataegus intricata Lange. Lange's Thorn. Biltmore Haw. Fig. 2366. C. intricata Lange, Bot. Tidssk. 19: 264. 1894-95. C. biltmoreana Beadle, Bot. Gaz. 28: 406. 1899. Crataegus modesta Sarg. Rhodora 3: 28. 1901. Crataegus premora Ashe, Ann. Carn. Mus. i : 391. 1902. An irregularly branched small shrub, occa- sionally 15° high. Spines infrequent; leaves elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, i'-^V long, ¥- 2I' wide, acute, broadly cuneate to truncate, doubly serrate or lobed, rough-pubescent, some- times becoming scabrous; corymbs and calyx villous, few-flowered ; flowers about 12" broad ; stamens usually 10, sometimes 20; anthers yellow or pink; styles and nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit short-ellipsoid to globose, 4"-7" thick, greenish-yellow or becoming dark reddish- brown, slightly pubescent. Open rocky woods, western New England and New York south to South
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