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of lobes enlarged and more distinct, petioles slender, 8-18 lines 
long, slightly villose in the furrow when young, distantly glandu- 
lar, often reddish toward the base, becoming more red with age, 
this color sometimes extending to the midrib and principal veins; 
corymbs 6-10 flowered, peduncles slightly hairy or glabrous, rather 
long, stamens 20, anthers rose color, calyx tube slightly hairy, its 
lobes glandular serrate, hairy on the inner surface; fruit globose 
or oval, 6-8 lines long, 6-7 broad, umbilicate at the base, drooping, 
bright red, nutlets 4-5, flesh yellowish, well flavored, edible. 
Clayey soil. Flowers the last week in May, fruit ripens in Sep- 
tember. Thompsons Lake, Albany co. and Gansevoort, Saratoga 
co. In the latter locality it forms a tree 15-20 feet tall with a 
trunk diameter of 4-6 inches. On some trees the fruit is globose, 
on others it is oval. The leaves sometimes become convex as in 
C. pringlei. The fruit stems sometimes become red in the 
upper part. 
LOBULATAE 
Fruit medium or large, subglobose or oblong, bright red or crim- 
son, nutlets 3-5, distinctly grooved on the back; inflorescence 
villose or glabrous, stamens 5-15, anthers rose color. 
Leaves glabrous beneath, stamens 5-8 C. holmesiana 
Leaves somewhat hairy beneath, stamens 510 C.lobulata 
Crataegus holmesiana Ashe 
Holmes thorn 
Bot. Gaz. 31:10. Silva N. A. 13:119, t. 676 
Tree or large shrub 12-25 feet tall with widely spreading or 
ascending branches; leaves thin, ovate, 1-1.5 inches long, 9-15 
lines broad at flowering time, larger and firmer when mature and 
on vigorous young shoots sometimes with the basal pair of lobes 
enlarged and more divergent, acute at the apex, broadly rounded 
or subtruncate at the base, sharply serrate with slender pointed 
teeth, with 4-5 short acute lobes each side, pubescent above when 
young with minute appressed whitish hairs, glabrous and slightly 
paler below, petiole slender, 6-12 lines long, glabrous or with a 
few hairs and reddish glands; flowers 8-12 in a cluster, 5-8 lines 
broad, on slender, glabrous or slightly hairy peduncles, calyx 
glabrous, often tinged with red, the lobes narrow, linear, slightly 
