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CRATAGUS FECUNDA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS usually 10; anthers dark purple. Leaves oblong-obovate to oval or 
broadly ovate, thin, lustrous, coarsely serrate. 
Crateegus fecunda, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxiii. 111 (1902). 
A tree, from twenty to twenty-five feet in height, with a trunk ten or twelve inches in diameter 
covered with thin bark broken into small closely appressed dark red-brown scales, and stout wide- 
spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical round-topped rather open head. The branchlets are 
stout, slightly zigzag, marked by large pale oblong lenticels, and armed with numerous very slender 
straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines which vary from two to two and a half inches 
in length ; covered when they first appear with soft matted pale hairs, they become during their first 
summer glabrous, lustrous, and light orange-green, and ashy gray in their second season. The leaves 
vary from oblong-obovate to oval or broadly ovate, and are acute, or rarely rounded and short-pointed 
at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed below, and coarsely and usually doubly serrate, with broad 
spreading glandular teeth except toward the base, which is ciliate with short scattered pale hairs; when 
they unfold they are dark green, lustrous, and roughened on the upper surface by short pale appressed 
caducous hairs, and on the lower surface pale yellow-green, and villose along the midribs and primary 
veins, with occasional white hairs; at maturity the leaves are thin but firm in texture, dark green and 
lustrous above, pale yellow-green below, from two to two and a half inches in length and from one inch 
and a half to two inches in width, with stout midribs and remote primary veins only slightly impressed 
on the upper surface and after midsummer often bright red below; they are borne on stout more or less 
winged petioles which are grooved on the upper side, often glandular, coated with pale hairs when they 
first appear but soon glabrous, dull red at maturity, and from one half to three quarters of an inch 
long. The stipules are linear-lanceolate to narrowly obovate, and glandular-serrate. On vigorous 
leading shoots the leaves are often slightly lobed with short broad acute lobes, and appear convex by the 
hanging down of the margins; they are from three to four inches long and from two to three inches 
broad, and their stipules are semilunate, coarsely glandular-serrate, and frequently three quarters of an 
inch in length. Late in the autumn the leaves turn to brillant shades of orange and scarlet or assume 
a deep rich bronze color. The flowers, which are three quarters of an inch in diameter, open at the end 
of May and are borne in wide many-flowered compact slightly villose compound corymbs, with linear 
or oblong-obovate coarsely glandular-serrate bracts and bractlets. The calyx-tube is narrowly obconic 
and more or less villose, and the lobes are elongated, acute, and coarsely glandular-serrate, with stipitate 
dark red glands villose on the inner surface. There are usually ten but occasionally from twelve to 
fifteen stamens with small dark purple anthers, and two or three styles. The fruit ripens at the end of 
October and hangs on slender pedicels, which are often half an inch in length, in broad many-fruited 
drooping clusters ; it is short-oblong to subglobose, full and rounded at the ends, covered until nearly 
fully grown with long soft pale hairs, and at maturity dull orange-red marked by many small dark 
dots, and from seven eighths of an inch to an inch im length; the calyx-cavity is deep but com- 
paratively narrow, and the lobes are linear-lanceolate, erect and incurved, coarsely glandular-serrate 
above the middle, and dark red on the upper side toward the base; the flesh is very thick, firm and 
hard, pale green, dry, and sweet. The two or three nutlets are hght-colored, rounded and prominently 
ridged on the back, and one third of an inch long. 
