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of lobes enlarged and more distinct, petioles slender, 8-18 lines 

 long, slightly villose in the furrow when young, distantly glandu- 

 lar, often reddish toward the base, becoming more red with age, 

 this color sometimes extending to the midrib and princijjal veins; 

 corjmbs G-10 flowered, peduncles slightly hairy or glabrous, rather 

 long, stamens 20, anthers rose color, calyx tube slightly hairy, its 

 lobes glandular serrate, hairy on the inner surface; fruit globose 

 or oval, 6-8 lines long, 6-7 broad, umbilicate at the base, drooping, 

 bright red, nutlets 4-5, flesh yellowish, well flavored, edible. 



Clayey soil. Flowers the last week in May, fruit ripens in Sep- 

 tember. Thompsons Lake, Albany co. and Gansevoort, Saratoga 

 CO. In the latter locality it forms a tree 15-20 feet tall with a 

 trunk diameter of 4-6 inches. On some trees the fruit is globose, 

 on others it is oval. The leaves sometimes become convex as in 

 C. p r i n g 1 e i. The fruit stems sometimes become red in the 

 upper part. 



LOBULATAE 

 Fruit medium or large, subglobose or oblong, bright red or crim- 

 son, nutlets 3-5, distinctly grooved on the back; inflorescence 

 villose or glabrous, stamens 5-15, anthers rose color. 



Leaves glabrous beneath, stamens 5-8 C . h o 1 m e s i a n a 



Leaves somewhat hairy beneath, stamens 5-10 C . 1 o b u 1 a t a 



Crataegus holmesiana Ashe 



Holmes thorn 



Bot. Gaz. 31 : 10. Silva N. A. 13 : 119, t. G76 



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



ascending branches; leaves thin, ovate, 1-1.5 inches long, 9-15 



lines broad at flowering time, larger and firmer when mature and 



on vigorous young shoots sometimes with the basal pair of lobes 



enlarged and more divergent, acute at the apex, broadly rounded 



or subtruncate at the base, sharply serrate with slender pointed 



teeth, with 4-5 short acute lobes each side, pubescent above when 



young- with minute apj^ressed whitish hairs, glabrous and slightly 



paler below, petiole slender, 6-12 lines long, glabrous or with a 



few hairs and reddish glands ; flowers 8-12 in a cluster, 5-8 lines 



broad, on slender, glabrous or slightly hairy peduncles, calyx 



glabrous, often tinged with red, the lobes narrow, linear, slightly 



