﻿402 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 



coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, 

 and very slightly and irregularly divided above the middle into 

 small acute lobes; more than half-grown when the flowers open 

 and then dark green and roughened above by shining white 

 hairs, and paler and glabrous below; at maturity thin but firm 

 in texture, light bluish-green and scabrate on the upper surface, 

 pale on the lower surface, 5- 5-8^"^ ^^^g^ 4*5^5-5^'" wide, with 

 slender yellow midribs deeply impressed on the upper side, and 

 5 or 6 pairs of thin primary veins extending very obliquely to 

 the points of the lobes; petioles stout, wing-margined at the 

 apex, grooved, sparingly villose early in the season, becoming 

 glabrous and dark purple, glandular with minute scattered dark 

 glands, 2.5-3*^"^ in length. Flowers 1.5-2''"' in diameter on long 

 slender pedicels, in broad many-flowered thin-branched glabrous 

 compound cor3'mbs; bracts and bractlets linear, acuminate, 

 slightly glandular, reddish, mostly deciduous before the flowers 

 open; calyx tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes abruptly 

 narrowed at the base, wide, acuminate, tipped w^ith minute red 

 glands, coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer and 



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villose on the inner face; stamens 5-10; anthers pink; styles 2 

 or 3, Fruit on glabrous red pedicels in drooping few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong to subglobose, crimson, lustrous, marked 

 by small pale lenticels, 1-1.2*^"' in diameter; calyx prominent 

 with a broad deep cavity and much enlarged coarsely serrate 

 spreading lobes, dark red on the upper side below the middle, 

 slightly villose toward the apex, generally' persistent on the ripe 

 fruit; flesh thin, yellow, soft and succulent; nutlets 2 or 3, full 

 and rounded at the ends, 7^"^ long, 6""'" wide, prominently ridged 

 on the back, with a broad high deeply grooved ridge, the 

 ventral cavities broad and shallow. 



A small round-headed tree, 4-5™ in height, with slender nearly straight 

 branchlets, hght orange-green and marked by small pale lenticels when they 

 first appear, light reddish-brown and very lustrous at the end of their first 

 season, and gray or light reddish-brown the following year, and armed with 

 few very stout slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining spines 3-5-4''" 

 long. Flowers about May 20th. Fruit ripens early in October, but is apt to 

 wither on the tree. 



Borders of woods on clay hills near Barrington, May, June and Septem- 



