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lobes, cuneate and finely glandular-serrate below the middle and 
often quite entire toward the base, with slender midribs and 
remote primary veins arcuate and running to the points of the 
lobes, at the flowering time membranaceous, 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 and lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower 
surface, glabrous or nearly so, 1% to 2 in. long and 1 to 1% in. 
wide, with slender glandular petioles 34 to 1 in. long, slightly 
‘grooved on the upper surface, often dark red toward the base, 
and like the young branchlets villous with pale soft hairs; 
stipules lanceolate to oblanceolate, conspicuously glandular ser- 
wate with dark red glands, % to 34 in. long. Flowers % to 3% 
in. in diameter when fully expanded, in broad many-flowered 
‘compound tomentose cymes; bracts and bractlets linear-lanceo- 
late, 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 ten; anthers yellow; styles three or 
four. Fruit subglobose, occasionally rather longer than broad, 
dark crimson, marked with scattered dark dots, about ¥% in. in 
diameter, with thin sweet dry yellow flesh; nutlets three or four, 
about ¥% in. long, conspicuously ridged on the back with high 
grooved ridges. 
A low bushy tree occasionally 20 feet in height with a short 
trunk 8 to Io in. in diameter, or more frequently shrubby and 
forming wide dense thickets, and with stout more or less zigzag 
branches bright chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first 
year, ashy gray during their second season and armed with 
many stout chestnut-brown straight or curved spines I to 1% in. 
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 Robin- 
son, 1900; Gerrish island, Maine, /. G. Jack, 1899-1900; Bruns- 
wick, Maine, Mrs. Kate Furbish, May 1899; Newfoundland, A. 
C. Waghorne, 1894. - 
