KOSACELE 



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ter; calyx only slightly enlarged, the lobes erect and incurved, coarsely serrate, dark red 

 on the upper side below the middle, their tips deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, 

 pale yellow, juicy; nutlets 4 or 5, narrow at the ends, irregularly ridged often with a high 

 broad ridge, and sometimes grooved on the back, about \' long. 



A tree, occasionally 20 high, with a trunk a foot in diameter, ascending branches forming 

 a narrow open head, and stout glabrous branchlets bright reddish brown and rather lus- 



Fig. 455 



trous during their first season, becoming light gray slightly tinged with red in their second 

 year, and armed with stout straight or slightly curved spines 1'-!$' long; or occasionally 

 shrubby, with a short trunk divided near the ground into several spreading stems. 



Distribution. Rich moist ground, Stratford, Fairfield County (E. H. Fames), and 

 Ansonia, New Haven County, Connecticut (E. B. Harger). 



104. Crataegus sertata Sarg. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded, truncate, subcordate or rarely cuneate at 

 the broad base, finely and often doubly serrate with straight gland-tipped teeth, and 

 deeply divided into 5 or 6 pairs of wide acuminate lobes, when they unfold coated above 

 with short pale hairs and villose below on the midrib and veins, about hah* grown and vil- 

 lose when the flowers open during the first half of May, and at maturity membranaceous, 

 dark yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale yellow-green and glabrous on 

 the lower surface, 2^'-3' long, and l^'-2' wide, with a thin yellow midrib, and slender 

 primary veins arching obliquely to the point of the lobes; petioles slender, slightly grooved, 

 villose early in the season, ultimately glabrous, sparingly glandular, l'-3' in length; leaves 

 at the end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, rounded or slightly cordate at base, often 3' long 

 and 2|' wide. Flowers f'-l' in diameter, on slender pedicels, in broad 10-15-flowered 

 densely villose corymbs, with linear to linear-obovate glandular large and conspicuous 

 caducous bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous above, villose below, 

 the lobes abruptly narrowed from the base, broad, acuminate, tipped with small red glands, 

 coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrate on the outer surface, pubescent on the inner surface; 

 stamens 5-10, usually 5; anthers pale rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at base by tufts of 

 pale hairs. Fruit ripening about the middle of September and soon falling, on slender 

 villose or pubescent pedicels, in drooping many-fruited clusters, subglobose to slightly 

 obovoid, rounded at the ends, bright red and lustrous, becoming darker or crimson when 

 fully ripe, marked by occasional large pale dots, about %' long and wide; calyx prominent, 

 with enlarged mostly erect incurved serrate lobes; flesh thin, yellow, aromatic, pleasantly 



