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slightly hairy on the inner surface, becoming bright red at the 
base, stamens usually 10, sometimes 5-9, anthers red or reddish 
purple; fruit subglobose or oval, about 6 lines long, 5-6 broad, 
dark red or crimson, nutlets 2-5, flesh yellow, pleasant, edible. 
Clayey soil and rocky pastures. Gansevoort, Saratoga co. and 
Lake Pleasant, Hamilton co. Flowers in May, ripens its fruit 
the latter part of August. 
The early ripening of the fruit is one of the distinguishing 
characters of the species. In our specimens the fruit is scarcely 
oblong as in the typical form, and the styles are 2-3, but in other 
respects the agreement of the characters is good. The bright red 
color of the inner bases of the calyx lobes in the Gansevoort speci- 
mens contrasts beautifully with the pale green color of the imma- 
ture fruit. 
Crataegus delucida Sarg. 
Delucid thorn 
Rhodora, 5: 1389 
Shrub 6-10 feet tall with erect or ascending branches; leaves 
thin, ovate, broadly ovate or oval, acute, sharp pointed or acumi- 
nate at the apex, broadly rounded, subtruncate or rarely broadly 
cuneate at the base, finely serrate, with 4-6 distinct, sharp pointed 
or acuminate lobes each side, generally tinged with bronze red 
when they unfold and then covered above with short appressed 
whitish hairs, at flowering time yellowish green, 1-1.5 inches long, 
9-18 lines broad, paler and glabrous below, larger, darker green 
and glabrous above when mature, petioles slender, 6-12 lines long, 
usually shorter on young and vigorous shoots with the blades 
larger and broader, slightly glandular; flowers 6-12 in a cluster, 
about 6 lines broad, on slender branched glabrous peduncles, 
calyx lobes narrow, elongated, entire or with few minute glands, 
often red at the tips, stamens usually 5-8, sometimes 10, anthers 
red or reddish purple; fruit oblong, bright red or scarlet, droop- 
ing, the calyx lobes spreading or reflexed, often deciduous from 
the ripe fruit, nutlets 3-4, flesh yellow. 
Clayey hillsides and rocky pastures. Albany and Sandlake. 
Flowers about the middle of May, fruit ripens during the last half 
of September or early in October. 
