REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1903 57 



TOMENTOSAE 

 Fruit small or medium, subglobose, oval or pyriform, orange 

 red or scarlet, nutlets 2-5 with a cavity on each of the ventral 

 faces ; flowers usually many in a cluster ; leaves thin or coriaceous, 

 usually pubescent beneath. 



Crataegus succulenta Link 



Succulent thoi'n 

 Silva N. A. 13:139, 1. 181 



Shrub or bushy tree 8-15 feet tall with widely spreading or 

 ascending branches; leaves elliptic or subrhomboidal, acute or 

 sharp pointed at the apex, cuneate at the entire base, serrate, with 

 4-6 short, acute lobes each side above the middle, at flowering 

 time thin, slightly hairy above, pubescent beneath, when mature 

 coriaceous, dark green and glabrous above, paler below, usually 

 2-2.5 inches long, 1.5-2 inches broad, on young and vigorous shoots 

 somewhat larger and broadly or concavely cuneate or rounded at 

 the base, petioles stout, 4-8 lines long, margined at the apex, often 

 becoming red or reddish with age; flowers 7-8 lines broad, many 

 in a cluster, supported on long, slender villose branching 

 peduncles, calyx tube hairy or glabrous, its lobes laciniately 

 glandular serrate, elongated, soon reflexed, hairy, stamens 15-20, 

 anthers small, pink; fruit globose, scarlet, drooping, 4-6 lines long, 

 flesh yellow, juicy, edible, nutlets 2-3. 3 lines long. 



Clayey soil. Albany and Albia, Rensselaer co. Flowers from 

 May 15-25, fruit ripens in September and usually hangs on the 

 branches till late in October. Sometimes a few persist through the 

 winter. 



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SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PLANTS OF THE SUSQUE- 

 HANNA VALLEY 



BY FRANK E. FENNO 



Dryopteris goldieana (Hook.) Gray 



Aspidium goldieanum Hook. 



Goldie's shield fern 



Hillsides near Nichols. Infrequent. August. 



