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red or crimson when ripe, the boat-shaped calyx lobes erect or 

 spreading, their tips often deciduous, nutlets 3-5. 



Clayey soil. Albany, Copake, Lansingburg and Thompsons 

 Lake. Flowers about the middle of May, fruit ripens from the 

 first to the middle of October. Distinguished from the preceding 

 species by its fewer stamens, pink or purplish anthers and crimson 

 fruit. C. pruinosa dififers from both in having 20 stamens 

 with pink anthers. It is a common species about Albany. 



INTRICATAE 



Fruit medium, yellowish green, orange red or crimson, nutlets 

 2-5, ridged on the back ; corymbs few flowered ; leaves thick, sub- 

 coriaceous. 



Small, rather late -flowering shrubs. 



Leaves hairy when young 1 



Leaves glabrous C. intricata 



1 Anthers ])ink or pinkish purple C. p e c k i i 



1 Anthers pale yellow C. modesta 



Crataegus intricata Lange 

 Intricate thorn 



Small shrub 3-8 feet tall with few erect or spreading branches ; 

 leaves ovate, broadly ovate, elliptic or oblong elliptic, thin when 

 young, becoming thick and firm with age, acute at the apex, 

 broadly rounded or cuneate at the base, sharply serrate, with 3-4 

 acute lobes each side, the basal pair, on leaves of young vigorous 

 shoots, often enlarged and distinctly separated from the pair 

 above by deep sharp excavations, glabrous both sides, petiole 

 slender. 1-12 lines long, glandular, slightly margined at the apex; 

 fiowers in clusters of 4-8, on short, mostly glabrous peduncles, 

 calyx lobes lanceolate, slightly laciniate serrate, stamens 5-10, 

 anthers pale yellow; fruit erect, svibglobose or obovate, pointed 

 at the base, pale red or orange red, nutlets 3-4. 



Hillsides and shaly knolls. Albany and Lansingburg. Flow- 

 ers May 20 to June 1, fruit ripens the last week in September and 

 the first week in October, and soon falls. In falling it often car- 

 ries the peduncle with it. The spines are slender, straight or 

 nearly so and usually 1-1.5 inches long. 



