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red or crimson when ripe, the boat-shaped calyx lobes erect or 
spreading, their tips often deciduous, nutlets 3-5. 
Clayey soil. Albany, Copake, Lansingburg and Thompsons 
Lake. Flowers about the middle of May, fruit ripens from the 
first to the middle of October. Distinguished from the preceding 
species by its fewer stamens, pink or purplish anthers and crimson 
fruit. C. pruinosa differs from both in having 20 stamens 
with pink anthers. It is a common species about Albany. 
INTRICATAE 
Fruit medium, yellowish green, orange red or crimson, nutlets 
2-5, ridged on the back; corymbs few flowered; leaves thick, sub- 
coriaceous. 
Small, rather late flowering shrubs. 
Leaves hairy when young i 
Leaves glabrous Cio isn trialed) 
1 Anthers pink or pinkish purple Go pe cia 
1 Anthers pale yellow C. modesta 
Crataegus intricata Lange 
Intricate thorn 
Small shrub 3-8 feet tall with few erect or spreading branches; 
leaves ovate, broadly ovate, elliptic or oblong elliptic, thin when 
young, becoming thick and firm with age, acute at the apex, 
broadly rounded or cuneate at the base, sharply serrate, with 3-4 
acute lobes each side, the basal pair, on leaves of young vigorous 
shoots, often enlarged and distinctly separated from the pair 
above by deep sharp excavations, glabrous both sides, petiole 
slender, 4-12 lines long, glandular, slightly margined at the apex; 
flowers in clusters of 4-8, on short, mostly glabrous peduncles, 
calyx lobes lanceolate, slightly laciniate serrate, stamens 5-10, 
anthers pale yellow; fruit erect, subglobose or obovate, pointed 
at the base, pale red or orange red, nutlets 3-4. 
Hillsides and shaly knolls. Albany and Lansingburg. Flow- 
ers May 20 to June 1, fruit ripens the last week in September and 
the first week in October, and soon falls. In falling it often car- 
ries the peduncle with it. The spines are slender, straight or 
“nearly so and usually 1-1.5 inches long. 
