Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...to obovoid. 64. C. lucorum (A). Leaves rhombic to broad-ovate or rarely obovate: fruit ellipsoidal. 65. C. lacera (C). Corymbs glabrous. Leaves ovate; anthers pale rose color; fruit subglobose to broad-obovoid, dark red. 66. C. depilis (A). Leaves ovate: stamens 15-20; anthers dark rose color; fruit subglobose. 67. C. basilica (A). Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded or rarely cuneate at the entire often unsymmetrical base, finely doubly serrate above with slender glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of triangular acute lobes, about half grown when the flowers open early in May and then membranaceous, light yellow-green and tinged with red or bronze color, and covered above with short white hairs and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark blue-green and smooth and lustrous or sometimes dull and scabrate on the upper surface, pale blue-green on the lower surface, 1J'-2J' long, and lJ'-lJ' wide, with a stout midrib, and primary veins arching obliquely to the point of the lobes; petioles slender, slightly winged at the apex, often sparingly glandular, J'-l' in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots often 3' long. Flowers in diameter, on short villose or glabrous pedicels, in compact many-flowered usually hairy corymbs, their bracts and bractlets linear to oblong-obovate, glandular-serrate with stipitate dark red or purple glands, turning red before falling, mostly persistent until after the flowers open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes abruptly narrowed at base, slender, acuminate, entire or sparingly glandular; stamens 5-l0, usually 5; anthers pink; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by tufts of pale hairs. Fruit ripening early in September and soon...
