ROSACEA 



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ular-serrate, frequently ^' long. Flovrers ^'-f ' in diameter, on slender hairy pedi- 

 cels, in broad open compound villose many-flowered corymbs, with lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate acuminate glandular-serrate conspicuous bracts and bractlets; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, more or less villose, with matted pale hairs, or nearly gla- 

 brous, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or villose on the outer surface, 

 villose on the inner surface, coarsely glandular-serrate, with bright red glands; 

 stamens 20; anthers small, rose color; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a 

 narrow ring of pale toraentum. Fruit ripening early in October and becoming 

 very succulent just before falling, on long slender pedicels, in drooping many-fruited 

 glabrous or puberulous clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, ^' in 

 diameter; calyx prominent, with an elongated narrow tube and reflexed villose lobes 

 bright red toward the base on the upper side; flesh thick, bright yellow, sweet and 

 succulent; nutlets usually 3, or 2, 1' long, broad and flat, full and rounded at the 

 ends, and ridged on the back, with a prominent rounded ridge, the ventral cavities 

 broad and deep. 



A tree, occasionally 30 high, with a tall trunk 10'-12' in diameter, covered with 

 dark brown scaly bark, stout spreading or ascending branches forming a broad 

 rather open symmetrical head, stout zigzag glabrous red-brown or gray-brown lus- 

 trous branchlets armed with straight or slightly curved thick chestnut-brown spines 

 usually about 2' long, and winter-buds sometimes ^ in diameter. 



Distribution. Rich forest glades, or the margins of woods, usually in low rich 

 soil; Rochester, New York, to Toronto, Ontario, and through Ontario to the southern 

 peninsula of Michigan; very abundant and of its largest size in Michigan. 



128. Crataegus lUinoiensis, Ashe. 



Leaves broadly obovate to oval, rounded or rarely acute at the wide apex, 

 broadly cuneate and entire at the base, coarsely and often doubly serrate above, with 

 straight or incurved teeth tipped with minute deciduous glands, and sometimes 



slightly and irregularly divided toward the apex into short acute lobes, when they 

 unfold covered below with a thick coat of hoary tomentum and pilose above, and 

 when the flowers open about the 20th of May membranaceous, yellow-green, covered 

 above with short pale hairs, pubescent below, and at maturity thick and firm in tex- 



