ROSACEA. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 121 
CRATAiGUS PEDICELLATA. 
Haw. 
STAMENS usually 10; anthers rose color. Leaves broadly ovate or oval, dark green, 
and scabrous above. 
Crategus pedicellata, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 226 (1901). 
A tree, eighteen or twenty feet in height, with a tall trunk sometimes a foot in diameter covered 
with close red-brown scaly bark, and comparatively slender elongated ascending or spreading branches 
which form a broad handsome symmetrical head. The branchlets are thin, somewhat zigzag, marked 
by numerous small pale lenticels, and armed with straight or slightly curved shining chestnut-brown 
spines from an inch and a half to two inches in length ; when they first appear they are dark chestnut- 
brown and slightly villose, and during their first season become very lustrous, and ashy gray in their 
second year. The winter-buds are nearly globose, bright red, and an eighth of an inch in diameter. 
The leaves are broadly ovate or occasionally obovate or rhomboidal, acute or acuminate, broadly 
cuneate or rounded, and on vigorous leading shoots sometimes truncate or slightly cordate at the base, 
divided above the middle into four or five pairs of short acute or acuminate lobes and coarsely and 
often doubly serrate, except toward the base, with spreading glandular teeth; in early spring they 
are roughened above by short rigid pale hairs and are glabrous below, and at maturity they are mem- 
branaceous, dark rich green and scabrous on the upper surface and pale on the lower surface, from three 
to four inches long and from two to three inches wide, with slender midribs only slightly impressed 
above and thin remote primary veins arching to the points of the lobes; they are borne on slender 
slightly grooved nearly terete petioles which are glandular, with obscure scattered minute dark glands, 
at first villose, ultimately glabrous, and from an inch and a half to two inches and a half in length. 
The stipules on vigorous shoots are strongly falcate, stipitate, coarsely glandular-serrate, and one third 
of an inch long. The flowers, which open during the last week in May when the leaves are nearly two 
thirds grown, are half an inch in diameter and are borne on thin pedicels, in loose lax many-flowered 
slender-branched slightly villose corymbs, with lanceolate glandular caducous bracts and bractlets. The 
calyx-tube is narrowly obconic and glabrous, and the lobes are broad, acute, very coarsely glandular- 
serrate, and reflexed after the flowers open. There are usually ten stamens with elongated filaments 
and rose-colored anthers, and five styles surrounded at the base by a conspicuous ring of pale tomentum. 
The fruit, which mostly falls before the end of September, hangs in few-fruited drooping glabrous 
clusters, on slender pedicels generally about three quarters of an inch in length; pyriform until nearly 
fully grown, it is oblong when ripe, full and rounded at the ends, bright scarlet, lustrous, marked by 
numerous small dark dots, three quarters of an inch long, and from one half to five eighths of an 
inch thick; the calyx-cavity is broad and deep and the lobes are much enlarged, coarsely serrate, and 
usually erect and incurved; the flesh is pale, thin, dry, and mealy. The five nutlets are rounded and 
deeply grooved on the back and about one third of an inch in length. 
Cratequs pedicellata is not rare in the neighborhood of Rochester, New York, where it was first 
distinguished in 1899 by Mr. John Dunbar.! 
1 John Dunbar (June 4, 1859) was born in the parish of Rafford, several large estates in England. Coming to the United States 
Elginshire, Scotland, and was bred a gardener first in the gardens in 1887, he found employment in the garden of Mr. Charles A. 
of Sir William Gordon Cumming at Altyre in his native parish, Dana at Dosoris on Long Island, where he had an excellent oppor- 
which he entered when he was seventeen years old, and then on tunity to become familiar with the trees and shrubs which grow 
