=2. Malus lancifòlia= Rehder. Narrow-leaved Crab Apple. (_M.
coronaria_ of manuals, in part.) Plate 73. Leaves ovate, oblong to
oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm. (1/2-1-1/4 inches) wide, 3.5-8 cm. (1-1/2-3
inches) long, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex; rounded or broadly
cuneate at the base, finely serrate often doubly serrate, slightly
tomentose when young, becoming entirely glabrous; bright yellow-green on
both sides. Flowers 3-3.5 cm. broad, 3-6 in a cluster, pedicels slender,
glabrous. Calyx lobes oblong, lanceolate, glabrous outside, slightly
villous inside, fruit subglobose, 2-3 cm. (3/4-1-1/3 inches) in
diameter, green.
=Distribution.=--Pennsylvania to the mountains of North Carolina, west
to Indiana and south to Missouri.
Specimens have been seen from the following counties of Indiana: Allen
(Deam) 1919; Daviess (Deam) 1919; Delaware (Deam) 1911; Dubois (Deam)
1919; Fountain (Deam) 1919; Henry (Deam) 1917, 1919; Jay (Deam) 1919;
Jennings (Deam); Knox (Deam) 1918, 1919; Noble (Deam) 1919; Posey (Deam)
1919; Spencer (Deam) 1919; Starke (Deam) 1911; Union (Deam) 1919;
Vermillion (Deam) 1911.
=3. Malus ioénsis= (Wood) Britton. Western Crab Apple. Iowa Crab Apple.
Plate 74. Leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 4-10 cm. (1-1/2-4 inches) long,
2-8 cm. (3/4-3-1/4 inches), wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, rounded
or broadly cuneate at the base, dentate-crenate or doubly so, slightly
pubescent above, becoming glabrous, dark green, slightly rugose above,
densely white-tomentose below, remaining so at least along the veins;
petioles 1.5-4 cm. (1/2-1-1/2 inches) long, densely white-tomentose;
corymbs 2-5 flowered, pedicels pubescent; calyx densely white-tomentose,
calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, densely tomentose on both sides;
flowers similar to those of _Malus coronaria_; fruit globose, without
angles, green, 2-3.5 cm. (3/4-1-1/2 inches) thick, 2-3 cm. (3/4-1-1/4
inches) long.
=Distribution.=--Indiana, central Kentucky, Louisiana, Wisconsin,
southern Minnesota, eastern Kansas and Texas. A tree in habit, similar
to _Malus glaucescens_.
Specimens have been seen from Allen (Deam) 1915; Benton (Deam) 1919;
Cass (Deam) 1916; Daviess (Deam) 1919; Delaware (Deam) 1911; Floyd
(Very) 1896; Huntington (Deam); Jasper (Deam) 1919; Knox (Deam) 1917;
Lake (Deam) 1919; Lagrange (Deam) 1915; Laporte (Deam) 1913, 1919;
Newton (Deam) 1919; Porter (Deam) 1915; Posey (Deam) 1919; Putnam
(Grimes); Sullivan (Deam) 1917, 1919; Tippecanoe (Dorner) 1900, (Deam)
1917; Vigo (Deam) 1917, 1919; Warren (Deam) 1919; White (Deam) 1916;
Whitley (Deam) 1919.
[Illustration: Plate 73.