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This is one of the prevailing species on the hillsides north of 
Albany. The flowers have a strong potash odor. It is closely re- 
lated to C. acutiloba Sarg. with which it was formerly 
united, but its flowers are smaller and its nutlets more numerous.. 
COCCINEAE 
Fruit medium, subglobose, crimson or scarlet when ripe, nutlets: 
2-5, distinctly ridged on the back; leaves thin or subcoriaceous. 
Anthers pale yellow or whitish C. gravesii 
Anthers purple or red , it 
1 Stamens 20 CG. brainer 
1 Stamens 10 C. praecoqua 
1 Stamens less than 10 C. egglestoni 
Crataegus gravesii Sarg. 
Graves thorn 
Rhodora, 5: 159 
Shrub or small tree with widely spreading or ascending 
branches; leaves ovate, obovate, elliptic or subrotund, thin, acute 
or rounded at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the entire base, une- 
qually serrate with rather broad blunt teeth, with 3-4 short, broad,. 
acute or rather blunt lobes each side, at flowering time 
pale green, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs above, when 
mature firm, glabrous, dark green and shining above, paler below, 
1-2 inches long and nearly or quite as broad, petioles slender, 4-12 
lines long, slightly margined ht the apex, sometimes slightly 
villose and glandular when young; flowers 5-12 in a cluster, on 
slender, short, glabrous or slightly hairy peduncles, calyx glabrous, 
its lobes narrow, elongated, minutely glandular, stamens 4-8, 
oceasionally 10, anthers pale yellow or whitish; fruit globose or _ 
depressed globose, erect, pale red or orange red when ripe, 
crowned by the short erect or spreading calyx lobes, nutlets 2-3. 
Clayey soil. Albany, North Greenbush and Westport. Flow- 
ers late in May or early in June, fruit ripens late in September. 
Closely related to C. coccinea rotundifolia, from 
which it may be separated by its thinner leaves, mostly fewer 
stamens, paler fruit and fewer nutlets. Our examples are shrubs 
more glabrous than the type. The young unfolding leaves are 
sometimes tinged with brownish red. 
