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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



85. Crataegus Earnest, Sarg., n. sp. 



Leaves obloug-ovate, acute or acuminate, concave-cuueate or rounded at the 

 entire or glandular base, sharply often doubly serrate above, with straight glandular 

 teeth, and divided into numerous short acute lateral lobes, about half grown when 

 the flowers open the middle of May, and then membranaceous, light yellow-green 

 and roughened above by short rigid white hairs and pale and glabrous below with 

 the exception of a few hairs on the midribs and slender primary veins arching to the 

 points of the lobes, and at maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark rather dull green 

 and smooth above, pale yellow-green below, 3'-3^' long, 2'-2^' wide; their petioles 

 slender, wing-margined above, villose at first, becoming glabrous, I'-l^' long; on 

 vigorous shoots usually rounded or truncate at the broad base, lyore deeply lobed, 

 often 3^ '-4' long and 3^ wide. FloTvers about |' in diameter, on slender slightly 

 hairy pedicels, in crowded compact 5-25, usually 15-18-flowered sparingly villose 

 compound corymbs, with linear obovate coarsely glandular reddish bracts and bract- 

 lets, mostly deciduous before the flowers open; calyx narrowly obconic, glabrous, the 

 lobes slender, elongated, glandular, with large bright red stipitate glands, glabrous 



on the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface; stamens 5-10, usually 5-8; anthers 

 deep rose-purple; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale 

 pubescence. Fruit ripening early in September and soon falling, on stout glabrous 

 pedicels, in large many-fruited drooping clusters, oblong to slightly ovate, full and 

 rounded at the ends, bright cherry red, lustrous, pruinose, marked by few large 

 dark dots, f -f ' long, about ^' wide ; calyx only slightly enlarged, the lobes erect and 

 incurved, coarsely serrate, dark red on the upper side below the middle, their tips 

 deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, pale yellow, juicy; nutlets 4 or 5, narrowed 

 at the ends, irregularly ridged, often with a high broad ridge, and sometimes grooved 

 on the back, about ^' long. 



A tree, occasionally 20 high, with a trunk a foot in diameter, ascending branches 

 forming a narrow open head, and stout glabrous branchlets bright reddish brown and 

 rather lustrous during their first season, becoming light gray slightly tinged with 

 red in their second year, and armed with stout straight or slightly curved spines 

 I'-ll' long; or occasionally shrubby, with a short trunk divided near the ground into 

 several spreading stems. 



