ROSACE^E 503 



few-fruited drooping clusters, subglobose, crimson, pruinose, marked by numerous pale 

 dots, about f in diameter; calyx enlarged, with a deep broad cavity, and closely appressed 

 serrate lobes villose on the upper side; flesh thick, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3-5, 

 rounded at base and narrowed and rounded at apex, rounded and sometimes ridged on the 



long. 







Fig. 459 



A tree, sometimes 20 high, with a tall trunk 8'-10' in diameter, covered with pale scaly 

 bark, heavy ascending and spreading branches forming a broad open head, and stout 

 ascending glabrous branchlets dark orange color when they first appear and light orange- 

 brown and lustrous during their first winter, and armed with numerous slender straight or 

 slightly curved bright red-brown shining spines If '-2' long; sometimes a broad bush, with 

 numerous stout spreading stems. 



Distribution. Rolling hills in the valley of the Hudson River, near Albany, Albany 

 County, New York. 



108. Crateegus coccinioides Ashe. 



Leaves broad-ovate, acute, full and rounded or truncate at base, sharply and often doubly 

 serrate with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into short acute 

 lobes, as they unfold conspicuously plicate, very lustrous, yellow-green, and villose on the 

 lower side of the midrib with a few short pale hairs usually persistent during the season, 

 about half grown when the flowers open early in May, and at maturity thin and firm in 

 texture, rather rigid, dull dark green and smooth on the upper surface, pale on the lower 

 surface, 2|'-3' long, and 2'-2|' wide, with a thin pale yellow midrib deeply impressed 

 above and often bright red toward the base after midsummer, and slender primary veins 

 arching to the point of the lobes; turning late in October gradually bright orange and 

 scarlet; petioles glandular on the upper side with minute-stalked dark red glands, at first 

 villose, soon glabrous, often bright red or pink toward the base, f'-l' in length; leaves at 

 the end of vigorous shoots more or less cordate at base and usually 3|'-4' long and wide. 

 Flowers f ' in diameter, in very compact 5-7-flowered glabrous or slightly villose corymbs, 

 with coarsely serrate oblong-obovate acute bracts and bractlets, conspicuously glandular 

 with large bright red glands; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually nar- 

 rowed from a broad base, acute and coarsely glandular-serrate; stamens 20; anthers large, 

 deep rose color; styles 5, surrounded at base by a ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening 

 early in October and falling gradually during a month or six weeks, on stout pedicels, in 

 few-fruited compact erect clusters, subglobose, much flattened at the ends, often obscurely 



