CRATAEGUS IX ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. IO5 



cm. wide, with thin yellow midribs sometimes tinged with rose-color 

 in the autumn and four or five pairs of slender primary veins arching 

 obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, more or less 

 wing-margined at the apex, grooved, sparingly hairy when they first 

 appear, with long white caducous hairs, occasionally glandular early 

 in the season, with small scattered dark glands, 2-4 cm. in length; 

 stipules linear to linear-falcate, acuminate, sometimes lobed at the base, 

 glandular, mostly deciduous before the flowers open; leaves on vigorous 

 leading shoots coarsely serrate, frequently three-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 laterally dixided into two or three pairs of secondary lobes, 6-8 cm. 

 long and often as wide or wider than long, their petioles stout, usually 

 about 2 cm. long and conspicuously glandular throughout the season. 

 Flowers 1.2- 1.4 cm. in diameter on long slender pedicels, in compact 

 usually 5-8-flowered thin-branched compound corymbs ; bracts and 

 bractlets oblong-obovate to linear, acuminate, glandular, mostly 

 deciduous before the flowers open; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the 

 lobes gradually narrowed from the base, acuminate, tipped with minute 

 dark red glands, sparingly glandular-serrate, usually only above the 

 middle, or nearly entire, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers 

 pale rose color; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring 

 of pale hairs. Fruit on long slender reddish pedicels, in few-fruited 

 drooping clusters, subglobose and rather broader than high to short- 

 obovate, obscurely angled, crimson, slightly pruinose, lustrous, marked 

 by few large dark dots, 1.3- 1. 5 cm. in diameter; calyx sessile, with a 

 deep narrow cavity and erect or spreading entire or slightly serrate 

 lobes, dark red on the upper side below the middle, their tips often 

 deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, nearly white, dry, firm and 

 sweet; nutlets 3 or 4, usually 4, full and rounded at the apex, gradually 

 narrowed to the rounded base, prominently ridged on the back, with a 

 high rounded ridge, 8-9 mm. long and often 6 mm. thick. 



A shrub 3-5 m. in height, with dull olive-gray stems, ashy gray 

 at the base, and slender only slightly zigzag branchlets, light red 

 or green tinged with red and marked by small pale lenticels when they 

 first appear, dark olive-brown and lustrous at the end of their first season, 

 becoming light gray-brown the following year, and armed with many 

 straight or slightly curved lustrous, purplish brown spines 3.5-5 cm. in 

 length; winter-buds globose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, covered with bright 

 red lustrous scales scarious on the margins. Flowers from the 20th 

 to the end of May. Fruit ripens the middle of October. Late in the 

 autumn the leaves turn dark red. 



