ROSACE^E 



487 



yellow-green, smooth and glabrous above, paler and villose below, 2|'-3' long, and 2'-3' 

 wide; petioles stout, glandular on the upper side with scattered dark glands, f-'-l' in length: 

 leaves at the end of vigorous shoots, rounded or truncate at base, and often 4 '-4^' long and 

 2|'-3' wide. Flowers saucer-shaped, |' in diameter when fully expanded, on elongated 

 slender hairy pedicels, in broad loose many-flowered villose corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes long, acuminate, coarsely glandular- 

 serrate, pubescent on the outer surface and tomentose on the inner surface; stamens usually 

 10, occasionally 7 or 8; anthers large, bright red; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at base by a 

 narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening in October, on long slender slightly pubes- 

 cent pedicels, in loose many-fruited sparingly villose clusters, obovoid to oblong, gradually 

 narrowed to the rounded base, crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, slightly vil- 

 lose, particularly toward the full and rounded apex, f '- f ' long, ' f ' in diameter; calyx large 

 and prominent, with elongated acuminate lobes abruptly narrowed from a broad base, dark 

 red on the upper side, tomentose on the lower, finely glandular-serrate, spreading or closely 



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appressed, often deciduous before the ripening of the fruit; flesh thin, light yellow, some- 

 what juicy; nutlets 4 or 5, thin, prominently and irregularly ridged on the back, I'-iV long. 



A bushy tree, sometimes 20 high, with a short trunk 6' in diameter, covered with pale 

 gray-brown scaly bark, stout ascending branches, and slender somewhat zigzag branch- 

 lets at first dark green and villose with long matted white hairs, puberulous and light 

 orange-brown during their first season, becoming glabrous and orange-brown or bright red, 

 and armed with numerous stout straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown spines 

 H'-2' long. 



Distribution. Low limestone ridges near the banks of the St. Lawrence River in the 

 Caughnawaga Indian Reservation opposite Lachine in the Province of Quebec; western 

 Vermont (Clarendon, Rutland County); Crown Point, Essex County, and Fort Ann, 

 Washington County, New York. 



93. Cratsegus noelensis Sarg. 



Leaves ovate to oval, acute, acuminate or rarely rounded at apex, acutely or broadly 

 cuneate at base, and coarsely doubly serrate with straight teeth, covered above with short 

 white hairs and densely villose-pubescent below when they unfold, more than half grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of April, and at maturity dark yellow-green, smooth and 

 glabrous on the upper surface, villose-pubescent on the lower surface, 2'-3' long, and 1 j'- 

 2|' wide, with a prominent midrib and thin conspicuous primary veins; petioles slender, 

 slightly wing-margined at apex, hoary-tomentose early in the season, becoming glabrous, 



