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222 BOTANICAL GALETTE [ APRIL 
calyx-tube broadly obconic, densely tomentose, the lobes nar- 
row, elongated, acuminate, glandular-serrate, villose on both 
surfaces, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; filaments slender ; 
anthers large, pale yellow; styles 3-5, usually 3 or 4, sur- 
rounded at the base by a broad ring of thick white tomentum. 
Fruit on slender pedicels in erect, spreading or sometimes droop- 
ing few-fruited slightly villose clusters, subglobose but rather 
longer than broad, bright crimson, marked by numerous large 
pale lenticels, villose particularly toward the ends with long 
white scattered hairs, 34 in. long; calyx-cavity broad and 
shallow, the lobes coarsely glandular-serrate, villose, wide- 
spreading, often deciduous before the falling of the fruit; flesh 
thick, bright yellow, subacid; nutlets usually 3 or 4, thick, light- 
colored, prominently ridged on the back with high rounded 
ridges, about % in. long. 
A tree 15 to 20 ft. in height with a short trunk 10 or [2 in. 
in diameter, stout ascending branches forming a broad open 
irregular head, and slender strongly zigzag branchlets marked 
by large oblong pale lenticels, coated when they first appear 
with long matted hairs, becoming dark orange-brown and lus- 
trous before midsummer and glabrous or puberulous during 
their first winter, light orange-brown and lustrous during their 
second season, and finally ashy-gray, and armed with very 
numerous stout straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown — 
lustrous spines from 2% to 3 in. long and brilliant for four or five 
years. Winter buds oblong, gradually narrowed to the obtuse 
apex, bright red and lustrous, about .3, in. long. 
Flowers during the last week of May. Fruit ripens by the 
middle of August and falls before the 1st of September. 
Known in a wild state only in a small group of plants 
growing on a wooded bank in the Arnold Arboretum, but now 
frequently cultivated in the neighborhood of Boston, and in cul- 
tivation forming a tall trunk and promising to attain a large size. 
When it is covered with its brilliant and abundant fruit Crataegus A rnol- 
diana is one of the most beautiful of the thorns which ripen their fruit in 
summer or early autumn. From Crataegus submollis (Sargent, Bor. GAZ. 

