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serrate, often deeply lobed, 10 to 12 cm long and 9g to Io cm 
wide, with stout glandular winged petioles. Flowers about 2 
cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in erect 
sparingly hairy mostly 10-12-flowered corymbs, the elongated 
lower peduncles from the axils. of upper leaves; calyx-tube nar- 
rowly obconic, thickly covered with long white hairs, the lobes 
separated by. wide sinuses, slender, acuminate, entire, glabrous 
on the upper surlace, slightly villose on the lower surface, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens twenty; anthers red; styles 
three or five. Fruit ripening in October, on long drooping nearly 
glabrous pedicels, obovoid, rounded at the apex, gradually and 
abruptly narrowed at the base, crimson, lustrous, marked by 
small pale dots, 1.5 to 1.8 cm long and 1.3 to 1.5 cm in diameter; 
calyx with a short neck, a broad deep cavity pointed in the bot- 
tom, and spreading mostly deciduous lobes; flesh very thin, 
orange-colored, dry and mealy; nutlets gradually narrowed and 
rounded at the ends, slightly ridged on the back, 8 to 9 mm 
wide, the narrow hypostyle extending to just below the middle 
of the nutlet. 
An arborescent shrub 6 to 7 m high, with ascending stems 
sometimes 3 dm in diameter at the base, and covered with ashy 
gray scaly bark, and stout nearly straight glabrous branchlets 
dark orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first 
appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous at 
the end of their first season and pale gray the following year, 
and armed with stout nearly straight chestnut-brown spines 3 
to 4 cm long. 
Pastures and meadows on the borders of Mud lake in Warren, 
Herkimer county, common; J. V. Haberer (no. 2414), June 16 
and October 9, 1907; Haberer, Dunbar and Sargent, September 
28, 1912. 
The biue color of the leaves of this species is unusual in plants 
of the Coccineae group. It is named in memory of Benjamin 
Davis Gilbert (1835-1907), a native of Clayville, New York, and 
for many years a resident of Utica where he was a successful 
- bookseller and the agricultural editor of the Utica Morning Herald, 
secretary of the New York Dairymen’s Association, and secre- 
tary and treasurer oi the Central New York Farmers Club. Mr 
Gilbert, who early became interested in ferns, was the author of 
many papers on these plants and an industrious and careful 
student of the flora of central New York. 
