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a few hairs on the upper surface of the midrib near the base, 

 sHghtly bronze tinged when unfolding, soon green or yellowish 

 green, paler beneath, becoming darker green and firm, those on 

 vigorous shoots larger, subcoriaceous, more distinctly lobed, and 

 broadly rounded or subtruncate at the base, petioles short, 6-12 mm 

 long, slightly margined at the top, nearly or quite glandless. 



Flowers 5-10 in a cluster, 1.6-2.4 mm broad, commonly on sim- 

 ple glabrous pedicels 6-12 mm long, calyx lobes irregular, oftcri 

 abruptly narrowed toward the reddish apex, entire or with few 

 marginal glands, slightly hairy inside; stamens 8-10, anthers pink; 

 styles 3-4. 



Fruit erect, globose or depressed globose, 1-1.4 cm long, 1.2-1.4 

 cm broad, angular, scarcely or not at all pruinose, 3-8 in a cluster, 

 supported on short glabrous pedicels, dull red or blotched witli 

 green, nutlets 3-4, 7-8 mm long. 



A shrub 2-3 m tall, with wide spreading branches armed with 

 stout, nearly straight spines 2.5-4 cm long. Flowers the last week 

 in May. Fruit ripe the latter part of September. 



Rocky hilly places. Corning, Steuben co. The species evidently 

 belongs to the Pruinosae group, though the fruit is not distinctly 

 pruinose. The specific name has reference to the short pedicels, by 

 which character the species is distinguished from all others of this 

 group known to me. 



Folia ovata vel late ovata, acuta, basi rotundata vel late cuneata, 

 utrique 2-3 lobata, seu vix lobata, dentibus brevibus, latis, obtusis, 

 margine serrata, glabra, nisi pilis paucis in venis ad basem, juventate 

 Icviter rufobrunnea, mox viridia, infra pallidora, in maturitate 

 virescentiora et subcoriacea, petiolae 6-12 mm longae. ad apicem 

 leviter marginatae fere eglandulosae. 



Flores 5-10 in corymbo, 1.6-2.4 cm latae, in pedicellis glabris, 

 vulgo simplicibus, 6-12 mm longis, calicis lobi irregulares, saepe ad 

 apicem abrupte angustati et rubri, integri vel glandis paucis, intra 

 leviter hirti, stamines 8-10, antherae rosaceae; styles 3-4. 



Poma 1-1.4 cm longa, 1.2-1.4 lata, angularia, epruinosa, brevibus 

 glabris erectis pedicellis sufifulta, sanguinea, nuculae 3-4, 7-8 mm 

 longae. 



Diplocladium penicilloides Sacc. 

 Decaying specimens of Polyporus resinosus ( Schrad.) 

 Fr. Helderberg mountains. May. S. H. Burnham. 



