REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1903 : 49 
glandular, stamens generally 5, sometimes 5-8, anthers purple; 
fruit subglobose, oblong or obovate, generally narrowed toward 
the base, bright red or crimson, crowned with the persistent, erect 
or incurved calyx lobes, nutlets 3-5, flesh yellow. 
Clayey soil. Crown Point,*Fort Ann, Thompsons Lake and 
Albany. It flowers from May 15-25, fruit ripens the last week in 
August and the first week in September. The foliage is commonly 
yellow green, but it is sometimes dark green. 
Crataegus lobulata Sarg. 
Lobulate thorn 
Rhodora, 3:22. Silva N. A. 13: 117, t. 675 
Tree 15-30 feet tall and a trunk diameter of 6-12 inches; leaves 
oval, ovate or oblong ovate, at flowering time 1.5-2.5 inches long, 
1-2 broad, larger when mature, pubescent with soft appressed 
whitish hairs above, slightly hairy below, specially on the midrib 
and principal veins, acute at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate 
at the base, sharply serrate, with 4-5 sharp pointed distinct lobes 
on each side, petioles slender, loosely villose or tomentose, 1-1.5 
inches long, becoming reddish or tinged with red in maturity; 
flowers on slender, villose or tomentose peduncles, the calyx often 
hairy below and its lobes hairy on the inner surface, stamens 
usually 10, sometimes 5-10, anthers reddish purple; fruit oblong 
or subglobose, crowned by the persistent erect or incurved calyx 
lobes, when ripe, crimson, 6-8 lines long and nearly as broad, nut- 
lets 3-5, flesh yellow, edible. 
Clayey soil. Crown Point. It blossoms from the 20th to the 
end of May and ripens its fruit late in September. Its foliage is 
yellowish green. It is closely related to the preceding species 
from which it may be separated by its larger size, the hairiness of 
the lower surface of the leaves, the more hairy inflorescence, more 
numerous stamens and its later ripening fruit. 
FLABELLATALE 
Fruit medium, scarlet or dark red, nutlets 3-5, ridged on the 
back; stamens 10-20 ; leaves membranaceous but firm when mature. 
Anthers pink or purplish C. contigua 
Anthers pale yellow or whitish C. irrasa 
