8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
slightly raised veins, 2% to 4 in. long and 2 to 2% in. wide; 
petioles slender, slightly grooved and glandular on the upper 
side, winged above by the decurrent bases of the leaves, tomen- 
tose, often tinged with red below the middle and I to 2 in. long; 
stipules linear-lanceolate or lunate on vigorous shoots, tomen- 
tose, glandular-serrate, 1% to 34 in. long, caducous. Flowers I 
in. in diameter, in broad many-flowered compound tomentose 
cymes, their bracts and bractlets glandular-serrate with dark 
glands; calyx tomentose, its cup deep and broad; calyx-lobes 
acute from a broad base, tomentose, glandular with small stalked 
persistent red glands, usually wide-spreading at anthesis and 
persistent, erect and much enlarged on the fruit; stamens ten; 
filaments slender ; anthers small, pale yellow; styles three to five. 
Fruit pear-shaped with yellow subacid dry flesh, about 34 in. 
long, gracefully drooping on the slender elongated puberulous 
branches of the cymes, bright orange-red, lustrous, marked with 
occasional pale lenticels, puberulous toward the base; nutlets 
usually five, rounded and slightly ridged on the back, a third of 
an inch long. Flowers from the 20th to the end of May. Fruit 
ripens and falls from the first to the middle of September. 
A tree 25 to 30 feet in height with a trunk occasionally a 
foot in diameter covered with light brown scaly bark, and wide- 
spreading branches, or often a tall intricately branched shrub, 
and with branchlets at first green and coated with hoary tomen- 
tum, becoming before midsummer dark orange-brown, and 
during their second year lustrous and pale gray-green to orange- 
brown, glabrous and very lustrous, slightly zigzag and armed 
with slender bright chestnut-brown straight or more or less 
incurved spines 2% to 3 in. long. 
On rich hillsides, along the margins of roads, and sometimes 
in low moist soil, from the neighborhood of Montreal,_/. G. Jack, 
1899, to Orono and Dover, Maine, M@. L. Fernald, May 1887, 
and Aguust 1896; Gerrish island, Maine, J. G. Jack, September 
1899; and to Jamaica Plain and Milton, Massachusetts. 
Confounded by me in the fourth volume of The Silva of North America, 
where it is well figured, with Crataegus mollis of Scheele, a common tree 



