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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



large scattered pale dots, puberulous toward the base, about f long; calyx much 

 enlarged, with erect coarsely glandular-serrate persistent lobes; flesh yellow, thin, 

 subacid, dry and mealy; nutlets usually 5, rounded and slightly ridged on the back^ 

 about ^' long. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a tall trunk occasionally a foot in diameter, ascending 

 or spreading ashy gray branches forming a broad handsome head, and branchlets 

 dark green and coated with hoary tomentum when they first appear, light or dark 

 orange-brown and still slightly tomentose at midsummer, becoming glabrous, lustrous, 

 and light red-brown or dark orange-brown, and armed with numerous thin straight 

 or somewhat curved bright chestnut-brown shining spines 2^'-3' in length. 



Distribution. Rich damp hillsides and the borders of woods and roads, valley 

 of the St. Lawrence River in the Province of Quebec to that of the Penobscot River 

 and Gerrish Island, Maine, to the coast of eastern Massachusetts, and near Albany, 

 New York. 



- t- Anthers rose color. 



73. Crataegus anomala, Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute, divided above the middle into 5 or 6 pairs of short acute or 

 acuminate lobes, and coarsely doubly serrate, with spreading glandular teeth except 

 toward the broadly cuneate or occasionally rounded base, when they unfold conspic- 

 uously plicate, scabrous above, with short appressed pale hairs, and villose below, 

 particularly along the slender midribs and thin remote primary veins arching to the 

 points of the lobes, about one third grown when the flowers open at the end of May, 

 and at maturity membranaceous, light yellow-green, smooth and glabrous above, 

 paler and villose below, 2^'-3' long, 2'-3' wide ; their petioles stout, glandular on the 



upper side, with scattered dark glands, f '-1' long. Flowers saucer-shaped, ^' in 

 diameter when fully expanded, on elongated slender hairy pedicels, in broad loose 

 many-flowered villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obcouic, coated with long matted 

 pale hairs, the lobes elongated, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, pubescent on 

 the lower surface and tomentose on the upper; stamens usually 10, occasionally 7 or 

 8; anthers large, bright red; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring 

 of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening in October, on long slender pedicels, in loose 



