ROSACES 



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spicuous tufts of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening and falling late in September or early in 

 October, on stout pedicels, in erect villose mostly few-fruited clusters, short-oblong, dark 

 dull red, marked by few dark dots, villose at the ends with long scattered pale hairs, f 

 long and f ' in diameter; calyx little enlarged, the lobes gradually narrowed from a broad 

 base, acuminate, glandular-serrate, often erect; flesh thick, yellow, dry and acid, with a 

 disagreeable flavor; nutlets 3-5, rounded and slightly ridged on the back, %' long. 



A tree, occasionally 25 high, with a tall trunk 10'-12' in diameter, covered with thin bark 

 separating into large flakes broken into small loose dark red-brown scales, stout branches 

 forming a wide symmetrical head, and slightly zigzag branchlets at first dark green and 

 villose, soon becoming glabrous, chestnut-brown and lustrous, bright orange-brown during 

 their second year, and armed with thick straight or somew T hat curved chestnut-brown 

 spines often 1|' long. 



Distribution. Southern New Hampshire, through southern Vermont to western Mas- 

 sachusetts and eastern New York; through central and western New York and southern 

 Ontario to northeastern Ohio (Plymouth, Ash tabula County), the southern peninsula 

 of Michigan and northeastern Illinois. 



98. Crataegus lobulata Sarg. Red Haw. 



Leaves oval to oblong-ovate, acute at apex, broad-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 spreading or pointing to the apex 



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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 covered above with short soft pale hairs and slightly pubescent 

 below on the slender midrib, and thin primary veins arching to the point of the lobes, and 

 at maturity 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 midrib, 2|'-3|' long and 

 2'-2' wide; petioles slender, nearly terete, at first tomentose, particularly at the base, 

 becoming pubescent or nearly glabrous and 'bright red, l'-lf in length; leaves at the 

 end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, rounded or truncate at the broad base, divided into 

 numerous acuminate lateral lobes, often 3i'-4' long and 3'-3|' wide. Flowers f-' in di- 

 ameter, on elongated slender pedicels, in rather compact many-flowered tomentose cor- 

 ymbs, with linear-lanceolate glandular-serrate bright red bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube 

 broadly obconic, glabrous, or villose toward the base, dark red, the lobes gradually nar- 

 rowed from a broad base, glabrous, coarsely glandular-serrate with large dark red stipitate 

 glands; stamens usually 10, occasionally 5-10; anthers small, dark reddish purple; styles 



