CRAT^CGUS COCCINEA, L. 119 



base, with slender midribs and remote primary veins arcuate 

 and running to the points of the lobes, at the flowering time 

 rnembranaceous, coated on the upper surface and along the 

 upper surface of the midribs and veins with short soft white 

 hairs, at maturity thick, coriaceous, dark green a$d lustrous on 

 the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, glabrous or nearly 

 so, 1-J-- 2 inches long and 1-1^- inches wide, with slender 

 glandular petioles f-1 inch long, slightly grooved on the 

 upper surface, often dark red toward the base, and like the 

 young branch! ets villous with pale soft hairs ; stipules lanceo- 

 late to oblanceolate, conspicuously glandular-serrate with dark 

 red glands, -J-- f inches long. Flowers -J-f inches in diameter 

 when fully expanded, in broad, many-flowered, compound 

 tomentose cymes ; bracts and bractlets linear-lanceolate, 

 coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous ; calyx tomentose, the 

 lobes lanceolate, glandular-serrate, nearly glabrous or tomen- 

 tose, persistent, wide-spreading or erect on the fruit, dark 

 red above at the base ; stamens 10 ; anthers yellow ; styles 

 3 or 4. Fruit subglobose, occasionally rather longer than 

 broad, dark crimson, marked with scattered dark dots, about 

 ^ inch in diameter, with thin, sweet, dry yellow flesh ; nutlets 

 3 or 4, about inch long, conspicuously ridged on the back 

 with high grooved ridges. 



" A low, bushy tree, occasionally 20 feet in height with a 

 short trunk 8-10 inches in diameter, or more frequently 

 shrubby and forming wide dense thickets, and with stout 

 more or less zigzag branches bright chestnut brown and lus- 

 trous during their first year, ashy-gray during their second 

 season and armed with many stout, chestnut-brown, straight 

 or curved spines 1-1^ inches long. Flowers late in May. 

 Fruit ripens and falls toward the end of October, usually 

 after the leaves. 



" Slopes of hills and the high banks of salt marshes usually 

 in rich, well-drained soil, Essex county, Massachusetts, John 

 Robinson, 1900 ; Gerrish island, Maine, J. Gr. Jack, 1899- 

 1900 ; Brunswick, Maine, Miss Kate Furbish, May, 1899 ; 

 Newfoundland, A. C. Waghorne, 1894." * 



1 Prof. C. S. Sargent in Bot. Gaz. , XXXI, 12. By permission of the publishers. 



