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midrib and principal veins, petioles villose and glandular; 
corymbs commonly few flowered, peduncles and calyx covered 
with long matted whitish hairs, stamens 10, anthers pale yellow 
or whitish; fruit oblong obovate or subglobose, often narrowed 
toward the base, bright red or scarlet, 7-8 lines long, 6-7 broad, 
nutlets 3-5. 
Clayey soil. Port Henry, Crown Point, Fort Ann, Albany. The 
trees found in the vicinity of Albany differ from those found in 
the more northern localities in having broader and more rounded 
leaves, which are sometimes blunt at the apex and often have the 
margin coarsely wavy, curved or arched as if there was an ex- 
cessive development of the lateral tissues. The anthers are 
whitish, not pale yellow as in the type, and the fruit is globose or 
oval, slightly umbilicate and persistently hairy. It is the first 
species to blossom about Albany, the flowers appearing from May 
10-15, and the fruit ripens and falls early in September. Perhaps 
these trees belong to a distinct species. The trees in the Fort Ann 
locality haye recently been cut down. 
Crataegus pringlei Sarg. 
Pringle’s thorn. 
Rhodora, 3:21. Silva N. A. 13:111, t.672. N. Y. State Mus. 
55th An. Rep’t, p.944 
Tree or large shrub 12-25 feet tall with widely spreading 
branches and a broad rounded head; leaves broadly ovate or oval, 
1-2 inches long and nearly as broad at flowering time, acute or 
bluntly pointed at the apex, subtruncate or broadly cuneate at the 
base, coarsely and sharply serrate, with 3-4 short broad acute lobes 
each side, pubescent above with short appressed whitish hairs, 
slightly villose below on the principal veins and midrib, yellowish 
ereen above, paler below, often convex by the deflection of the 
margins, petioles slender, villose; corymbs few flowered, stamens 
5-10, anthers pink or pinkish purple, calyx lobes hairy on the inner 
surface, peduncles short, villose; fruit subglobose, oval or oblong, 
sometimes slightly narrowed toward the base, generally hairy at 
the ends, 6-7 lines long and nearly as broad, bright red or scarlet, 
the calyx lobes spreading or erect. 
