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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



their petioles sleiuler, nearly terete, at first tomentose, pafticularly at the base, 

 becoming pubescent or nearly j^hibrons and bright red, and I'-l,^' long. Flowers ^' 

 in diameter, on elongated slender pedicels, in rather compact many-llowered tomen- 

 tose componnd corymbs, with linear-lanceolate glandular-serrate bright red bracts and 

 l)ractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous or villose toward the base, dark red, 

 the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, glabrous, coarsely glandular-serrate, 

 with large dark red stipitate glands; stamens usually 10, occasionally 5-10; anthers 

 small, dark reddish purple; styles 3-5, sometimes surrounded at the base by a ring 

 of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening and falling early in October, on short stout pedicels, 

 in erect compact tomentulose clusters, short-oblong, somewhat flattened at the full and 

 rounded ends, bright crimson, very lustrous, marked by occasional small white dots, 

 about I' long and |' thick; calyx little enlarged, the lobes small, lanceolate, coarsely 

 glandular-serrate, tomentose on the upper surface, erect and incurved, persistent; 

 flesh thick, yellow, sweet and juicy; nutlets 3-5, thin, dark-colored, ridged and often 

 grooved on the back, \' long. 



A tree, occasionally 35 high, with a straight trunk often a foot in diameter, cov- 

 ered with dark red-brown fissured bark broken into small thick plate-like scales, 

 stout generally ascending branches forming an open usually narrow irregular head, 

 and slender branchlets, dark green and covered with matted pale hairs when they 

 first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their first 

 season and light orange-brown the following year, and armed with many stout nearly 

 straight chestnut-brown spines rarely more than V in length. 



Distribution. Burlington, Vermont, and southward through the Champlain val- 

 ley, and western Massachusetts to northern Connecticut; common. 



80. Crataegus pedicellata, Sarg. 



Leaves broadly ovate or occasionally obovate or rhomboidal, acute or acuminate, 

 broadly cuneate or rounded at the entire base, coarsely often doubly serrate above, 

 with spreading glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of 



short acute or acuminate lobes, nearly two thirds grown when the flowers open during 

 the last week in May, and then roughened above by short rigid pale hairs and gla- 

 brous below, and at maturity membranaceous, dark rich green and scabrous on the 



