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or on vigorous shoots lunate, acuminate, coarsely glandular- : 
serrate, frequently % in. long. Flowers % to % in. in diameter, 
in slender branched villose open compound many-flowered 
corymbs; bracts and bractlets lanceolate to oblanceolate, act 
minate, glandular-serrate, conspicuous; calyx-tube narrowly 
obconic, more or less villose, with matted pale hairs, or nearly 
glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely glandular ; 
rounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum, Fri ) 
on elongated slender pedicels, in drooping many-fruited glabrous 
or puberulous clusters, subglobose or short-oblong, scarlet, 4 
trous, % in. in diameter when fully ripe; calyx prominent, ¥ 
an elongated narrow tube, and reflexed villose lobes, bright 
toward the base on the upper side; flesh thick, clear yel : 
Sweet, very succulent; nutlets 2 or 3, % in. long, broad te 
prominently ridged on the back, with high rounded ridges, 
trated on each of the inner faces by a short broad deep ¥ 
A tree occasionally 30 feet in height with a tall trunk 10 OF oi 
ie Sometimes flowering when only a few feet high, and with sense 
‘zigzag branchlets marked by numerous oblong pale lenticels, 
_ Seen when they first appear, light red-brown or yellow-brown 28 
Joe for two or three years and ultimately dull red-brown, and * 
oie straight or slightly curved thick bright chestnut-browp lustrous spines 
e about 2 in. in length Winter buds globose, sometimes nearly 
_ diameter, with broad ovate rounded lustrous bright red-brown - 
_ Pale and scarious on the margins. oe 
: Flowers in Ontario and central Michigan from the middle to the 
— _ Fruit ripens the first of October. 2 
oe Near Rochester, N. Y., John Dunbar, October, 199%) — 
__ flats near Toronto, D. W. Beadle, May and September, } 
_ Ont., C. S. Sargent, September, 1901; Belle Isle, Mich., C-: 
tember, 1901; Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. C. W. Fallass, » 
: £.. /. Cole, May, 1896 and too1, Miss E. J. Cole, and C. Bs 
: ‘Well disting uished from the other species of the a 
