ROSACES. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ot 
CRATAGUS SALIGNA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers yellow. Leaves narrow, rhombic or oval, acute or acumi- 
nate, subcoriaceous, dark green, and lustrous. 
Cratzgus saligna, Greene, Pittonia, iii. 99 (1896). 
A tree, occasionally twenty feet in height, with a short stem and long slender spreading branches 
gracefully drooping at the ends; or often forming clumps or small thickets with numerous stems, from 
eight to fifteen feet tall, springing from one root. The bark of the large branches and small stems 
is close and bright red or reddish brown, and on old trunks it separates near the ground into long 
slightly attached narrow plate-like gray scales. The branchlets are slender and wand-like, marked by 
large scattered pale lenticels, and armed with thin ndged nearly straight bright chestnut-brown shining 
spines from three quarters of an inch to an inch anda half m length; when they appear they are 
orange color deeply tinged with red and soon become bright red and very lustrous, and dull red-brown 
in their second season. The leaves vary from narrowly rhombic to oval, and are gradually narrowed at 
the ends, and acute or acuminate and apiculate at the apex, entire toward the base, and finely serrate 
above, with incurved teeth tipped with minute bright red glands; they are nearly fully grown when 
the flowers open toward the middle of June, light yellow-green, covered on the upper surface with short 
pale hairs, and pale and glabrous below, with slender bright red petioles about a third of an inch in 
length, and usually furnished near the base with two or three large stipitate dark red caducous glands; 
at maturity the leaves are thick and firm in texture, dark green, glabrous and lustrous above, pale below, 
from an inch and a half to two inches long and from three quarters of an inch to an inch wide, with 
stout midribs rose-colored on the under side, particularly toward the base, very obscure forked veins, and 
reticulate veinlets. On vigorous leading shoots the leaves are lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, 
often deeply and irregularly divided into one or two pairs of acute lateral lobes, from three inches to 
three inches and a half long and from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half wide; and their 
stipules are foliaceous, lunate, stalked, coarsely dentate, and often three quarters of an inch in length. 
Late in the autumn the leaves turn to brilliant shades of orange and bright scarlet. The flowers are 
about five eighths of an inch in diameter and are produced on short slender pedicels, in compact 
glabrous few or many-flowered compound corymbs, with linear glandular bright red bracts and bractlets. 
The calyx-tube is broadly obconic and glabrous, and the lobes are nearly triangular, entire, and often 
bright red toward the apex. There are twenty stamens with small yellow anthers, and five styles. The 
fruit, which ripens toward the end of September and sometimes remains on the branches at least as late 
as the middle of October, is borne on stout peduncles, in compact few-fruited drooping clusters, and is 
globose, a quarter of an inch in diameter, dull vinous red and very lustrous when fully grown, and 
ultimately blue-black; the calyx is small, with a narrow cavity and reflexed persistent lobes, and the 
flesh is thin, yellow, dry and sweet, and of a pleasant flavor. The five nutlets are thick, rounded and 
slightly ridged on the back, and about three sixteenths of an inch in length. 
Crategus saligna grows along the banks of the Cimmaron, Gunnison, and White rivers and other 
Colorado streams on both slopes of the continental divide at elevations varying from six thousand to 
eight thousand feet above the sea-level.’ 
1 Crategus saligna appears to have been first collected by Fré- Herb. Kew). It was collected by Hayden in 1869 (in Herb. Gray, 
mont in 1845 on his second transcontinental journey (No. 185 in without locality) and by Brandegee at Punch’s Springs in August, 
