598 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



short broad acute lateral lobes, when they unfold bronze-red and 

 glandular with the exception of a few hairs in the axils of the veins 

 below, nearly half -grown when the flowers open the middle of May and 

 then membranaceous, dark yellow-green above and pale below, and at 

 maturity subcoriaceous, dark blue-green and lustrous on the upper and 

 paler or glaucous on the lower surface, 6-7 cm. long and 4-5 cm. wide, 

 with thin yellow midribs and slender primary veins extending obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes; turning dull yellowish-bronze or purplish- 

 bronze before falling from the first to the middle of October; petioles 

 slender, grooved on the upper side, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandular at first, with minute stipitate dark red deciduous glands, 

 1.5-3 cm. in length; stipules ovate to lanceolate, often falcate, glandu- 

 lar, fading yellow or orange, caducous ; leaves on vigorous shoots more 

 broadly ovate, cordate, truncate or rounded at the broad base, 6-7 

 cm. long and wide, with stouter glandular petioles 1.5-2 cm. in 

 length. Flowers 1.8-2.5 cm. in diameter, on slender glabrous pedi- 

 cels 1.2-3.2 cm. long, in lax 5-10-flowered corymbs, with linear to lance- 

 linear glandular bracts and bractlets conspicuous and persistent until 

 after the petals fall; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes broad, 

 acute or acuminate, entire or sparingly serrate above the middle, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 18-20; anthers pale yellow; styles 

 2-5, usually 3 or 4. Fruit ripening late in September or early in Octo- 

 ber, on stout erect pedicels, in 3-5-fruited clusters, pyriform until 

 nearly fully grown, becoming depressed-globose or globose, angled, 

 slightly concave at the ends, red or crimson, freciuently blotched with 

 dark olive^green and usually greenish at the apex, covered with a thick 

 glaucous bloom, about 1-1.4 cm. in diameter and 9-10 mm. high; calyx 

 prominent with a short tube, a wide shallow cavity, and much enlarged 

 spreading or appressed lobes mostly persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh 

 thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, pale green or yellowish-green, hard, 

 usually rounded at the ends, irregularly ridged on the back, with a low 

 usually broad grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 



A slender treelike shrub 2.5-3 m. high, with few long slender flexuose 

 ascending or semierect branches frequently forming an oblong head, 

 and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by numerous large pale 

 lenticels, purplish and covered when they first appear with a glaucous 

 bloom, red-brown and lustrous in their second season and dark dull 

 gray-brown the following year, and armed with slender nearly straight 

 or slightly curved purplish or ultimately dark brown spines 4-6 cm. in 

 length. 



Berks county: Borders of woods and open thickets, near Kutz- 



