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midrib and princip,il veins, petioles villose and glandular; 

 corymbs commonly few flowered, peduncles and calyx co%'ered 

 with long matted whitish hairs, stamens 10, anthers pale yellow 

 or whitish; fruit oblong obovate or subglobose, often narrowed 

 toward the base, bright red or scarlet, 7-8 lines long, 6-7 broad, 

 nutlets 3-5. 



Clayey soil. Port Henry, Crown Point, Fort Ann, Albany. The 

 trees found in the vicinity of Albany differ from those found in 

 the more northern localities in having broader and more rounded 

 leaves, which are sometimes blunt at the apex and often have the 

 margin coarsely wavy, curved or arched as if there was an ex- 

 cessive development of the lateral tissues. The anthers are 

 whitish, not pale yellow as in the type, and the fruit is globose or 

 oval, slightly umbilicate and persistently hairy. It is the first 

 species to blossom about Albany, the flowers appearing from May 

 10-15, and the fruit ripens and falls early in September. Perhaps 

 these trees belong to a distinct species. The trees in the Fort Ann 

 locality have recently been cut down. 



Crataegus pringlei Sarg. 



Pringlc's thorn. 



Rhodoi-a, 3:21. Silva N. A. 13:111, t. 672. N. Y. State Mus.. 



55th An. Rep't, p.9M 



Tree or large shrub 12-25 feet tall with widely spreading 

 branches and a broad rounded head ; leaves broadly ovate or oval, 

 1-2 inches long and nearly as broad at flowering time, acute or 

 bluntly pointed at the apex, subtruncate or broadly cuneate at the 

 base, coarsely and sharply serrate, with 3-4 short broad acute lobes 

 each side, pubescent above with short appressed whitish hairs, 

 slightly villose below on the principal veins and midrib, yellowish 

 green above, paler below, often convex by the deflection of the 

 margins, petioles slender, villose; corymbs few flowered, stamens 

 5-10, anthers pink or pinkish purple, calyx lobes hairy on the inner 

 surface, peduncles short, villose; fruit subglobose, oval or oblong, 

 sometimes slightly narrowed toward the base, generally hairy at 

 the ends, 6-7 lines long and nearly as broad, bright red or scarlet, 

 the cah'x lobes spreading or erect. 



