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CRATAiGUS LOBULATA. 
Red Haw. 
StaMENS usually 10; anthers dark red-purple. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 
acutely lobed, membranaceous, dark yellow-green. 
Cratzgus lobulata, Sargent, Rhodora, iii. 22 (1901). 
A tree, occasionally thirty-five feet in height, with a straight trunk often a foot in diameter 
covered with dark red-brown fissured bark broken into small thick plate-like scales, and stout generally 
ascending light gray-brown branches forming an open usually narrow irregular head. The branchlets 
are thin, slightly zigzag, marked by many small pale lenticels, and armed with numerous stout nearly 
straight chestnut-brown spines rarely more than an inch in length; dark green and coated with matted 
pale hairs when they first appear, they become bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their 
first season, and hight orange-brown in their second year. The leaves vary from oval to oblong-ovate, 
and are acute at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the entire base, sharply and often doubly 
serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and deeply divided into numerous narrow acute or acuminate 
lobes, with tips which are spreading or point to the apex or to the base of the leaf; when they first 
appear and until after the opening of the flowers during the last week in May, when they are about 
half grown, the leaves are covered above with short soft pale hairs and are slightly pubescent below 
along the slender midribs and thin primary veins arching to the points of the lobes, and at maturity 
they are thin, dark yellow-green and glabrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, with 
occasional short white hairs toward the base of the midribs, from two inches and a half to three 
inches and a half in length and from two inches to two inches and a half in width ; they are borne on 
slender nearly terete slightly grooved petioles tomentose at first, particularly toward the base, and at 
maturity pubescent or nearly glabrous, bright red, and from an inch to an inch and a half in length. 
g, and caducous. The flowers are three 
quarters of an inch in diameter on elongated slender pedicels, in rather compact many-flowered thin- 
The stipules are linear, acuminate, bright red before fadin 
branched tomentose compound corymbs, with linear-lanceolate glandular-serrate bright red bracts and 
bractlets. The calyx-tube is broadly obconic, glabrous or villose toward the base, and dark red, and 
the lobes are gradually narrowed from broad bases, acute, glabrous, and coarsely glandular-serrate, with 
large dark red stipitate glands. There are usually ten but occasionally from five to ten stamens with 
slender elongated filaments and small dark reddish purple anthers, and from three to five styles 
sometimes surrounded at the base by a ring of pale tomentum. The fruit, which ripens and falls early 
in October, is borne in erect compact slightly tomentose clusters, on short stout pedicels ; it is oblong, 
somewhat flattened at the full and rounded ends, bright crimson, very lustrous, marked by occasional 
small white dots, and about three quarters of an inch long and five eighths of an inch thick ; the 
calyx-cavity is deep and narrow, and the lobes are small, lanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, tomentose 
on the upper surface, erect and incurved, and persistent; the flesh is thick, yellow, sweet, and juicy. 
The nutlets vary from three to five in number, and are thin, dark-colored, ridged and often grooved 
on the back, and a quarter of an inch long. 
Crategus lobulata inhabits the Champlain valley, where it is not rare, from Middlebury, 
Vermont, and Crown Point, New York, as far north at least as Burlington, Vermont, and ranges 
southward through western Massachusetts to northern Connecticut.’ It is one of the largest of the 
1 Crategus lobulata was collected on August 29, 1901, by Mr. C. H. Bissell on Shelden’s Cove near Lyme. 
