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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



3-5, full and rounded at the base and narrowed and rounded at the apex, rounded 

 and sometimes ridged on the back, with a high rounded ridge, about y^' long. 



A tree, sometimes 20 high, witli a tall trunk 8'-10' in diameter, covered with pale 

 scaly bark, heavy ascending and spreading branches forming a broad open head, stout 

 ascending glabrous branchlets dark orange color when they first appear and light 

 orange-brown and lustrons during their first winter, and armed with numerous 

 slender straight or slightly curved bright red-brown shining spines l^'-2' long; some- 

 times a broad bush, with numerous stout spreading stems. 



Distribution. Rolling hills in the valley of the Hudson River, near Albany, New 

 York (C. H. Peck). 



89. Crataegus coccinioides, Ashe. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute, full and rounded or truncate at the base, sharply 

 and often doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle 



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into short acute lobes, as they unfold conspicuously plicate, very lustrous, yellow- 

 green, and villose on the lower side of the midribs, with a few short pale hairs 

 usually persistent during the season, about half grown when the flowers open early 

 in May, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, rather rigid, dull dark green 

 and smooth on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 2^'-3' long, with thin 

 pale yellow midribs deeply impressed above and often bright red toward the basej 

 after midsummer, and slender primary veins arching to the points of the lobes, turn*-' 

 ing late in October gradually bright orange and scarlet; their petioles glandular on 

 the upper side, with minute-stalked dark red glands, at first villose, soon glabrous, 

 often bright red or pink toward the base, ^'-V long; on vigorous shoots more or less 

 cordate at the base and usually 3^'-4' long and broad ; their stipules lunate, coarsely 

 glandular-serrate, foliaceous, and \'-\' long. Flowers |' in diameter, in very com- 

 pact 5-7-flowered glabrous or slightly villose corymbs, with coarsely serrate oblong- 

 obovate acute bracts and bractlets, conspicuously glandular, like the inner bud-scales,| 

 with large bright red glands; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradu- 

 ally narrowed from broad bases, acute and coarsely glandular-serrate; stamens 20;| 

 anthers large, rose color; styles 5, surrounded at the base by a ring of pale tomen-| 

 turn. Fruit ripening early in October and falling gradually during a month or six! 



