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slightly hairy on the inner surface, becoming bright red at the 

 base, stamens usually 10, sometimes 5-9, anthers red or reddish 

 purple; fruit subglobose or oval, about 6 lines long, 5-6 broad, 

 dark red or crimson, nutlets 2-5, flesh yellow, pleasant, edible. 



Clayey soil and rocky pastures. Gansevoort, Saratoga co. and 

 Lake Pleasant, Hamilton co. Flowers in May, ripens its fruit 

 the latter part of August. 



The early ripening of the fruit is one of the distinguishing 

 characters of the species. In our specimens the fruit is scarcely 

 oblong as in the typical form, and the styles are 2-3, but in other 

 respects the agreement of the characters is good. The bright red 

 color of the inner bases of the calyx lobes in the Gansevoort speci- 

 mens contrasts beautifully with the pale green color of the imma- 

 ture fruit. 



Crataegus delucida Sarg. 



Delucid thorn 

 Rhodora, 5 : 139 



Shrub 6-10 feet tall with erect or ascending branches; leaves 

 thin, ovate, broadly ovate or oval, acute, sharp pointed or acumi- 

 nate at the apex, broadly rounded, subtruncate or rarely broadly 

 cuneate at the base, finely serrate, with 4-6 distinct, sharp pointed 

 or acuminate lobes each side, generally tinged with bronze red 

 when they unfold and then covered above with short appressed 

 whitish hairs, at flowering time yellowish green, 1-1.5 inches long, 

 9-18 lines broad, paler and glabrous below, larger, darker green 

 and glabrous above when mature, petioles slender, 6-12 lines long, 

 usually shorter on young and vigorous shoots with the blades 

 larger and broader, slightly glandular; flowers 6-12 in a cluster, 

 about 6 lines broad, on slender branched glabrous peduncles, 

 calyx lobes narrow, elongated, entire or with few minute glands, 

 often red at the tips, stamens usually 5-8, sometimes 10, anthers 

 red or reddish purple; fruit oblong, bright red or scarlet, droop- 

 ing, the calyx lobes spreading or reflexed, often deciduous from 

 the ripe fruit, nutlets 3-4, flesh yellow. 



Clayey hillsides and rocky pastures. Albany and Sandlake. 

 Flowers about the middle of May, fruit ripens during the last half 

 of September or early in October. 



