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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



below on the midrib and veins, and at maturity dark yellow-green and scabrate on the 

 upper surface, glabrous on the lower surface, 3'-3^' long, and 2^'-3' wide, with a slender 

 midrib, and 4 or 5 pairs of prominent veins extending obliquely to the point of the lobes; 

 petioles slender, more or less wing-margined at apex, slightly grooved, sparingly glandular, 

 villose early in the season, becoming glabrous and rose color in the autumn, lj'-l|' in 

 length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots cordate or rarely cuneate at base, deeply 

 lobed, often 4' long and 3^' wide, with a stout conspicuous glandular petiole. Flowers 

 f ' in diameter, on short slender villose pedicels, in small very compact few, usually 4-6- 

 flowered, thin-branched villose corymbs, with oblong-obovate acuminate glandular bracts 

 and bractlets mostly deciduous before the flowers open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, coated 

 with long matted white hairs, the lobes slender, acuminate, finely glandular-serrate, gla- 

 brous on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface; stamens 10; anthers dark rose 

 color; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening 

 at the end of September or early in October, on short reddish pubescent pedicels, in compact 

 drooping clusters, oblong-obovoid to short-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale 



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dots, about f ' long, and \' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with spreading sharply serrate 

 lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 4 or 5, 

 thin, acute at the ends, rounded or only slightly grooved on the back, about >' in length. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a trunk often 1 in diameter, covered with smooth pale gray 

 bark, and stout spreading' branches forming a round-topped head, and stout slightly zigzag 

 dark red-brown branchlets sparingly villose early in the season, soon glabrous, bright red- 

 brown, very lustrous and marked by small pale lenticels at the end of their first season, 

 becoming dark gray or gray-brown the following year, and armed with few stout spreading 

 bright chestnut-brown shining ultimately gray spines I'-l?' long. 



Distribution. Western Massachusetts through central and western New York to the 

 neighborhood of Toronto, southern Ontario. 



92. Crataegus anomala Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute, divided above the middle into 5 or 6 pairs of short acute or acu- 

 minate lobes, and coarsely doubly serrate with spreading glandular teeth except toward 

 the broad-cuneate or occasionally rounded base, when they unfold conspicuously plicate, 

 covered above with short appressed pale hairs, and villose below 7 , especially on the slender 

 midrib, and thin remote primary veins arching to the point of the lobes, about a third 

 grown when the flowers open at the end of May, and at maturity membranaceous, light 



