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TOMENTOSAL 
Fruit small or medium, subglobose, oval or pyriform, orange 
red or scarlet, nutlets 2-5 with a cavity on each of the ventral 
faces ; flowers usually many in a cluster; leaves thin or coriaceous, 
usually pubescent beneath. 
Crataegus succulenta Link 
Succulent thorn 
Silva N. A.. 13:139, t 18 
Shrub or bushy tree 8-15 feet tall with widely spreading or 
ascending branches; leaves elliptic or subrhomboidal, acute or 
sharp pointed at the apex, cuneate at the entire base, serrate, with 
4-6 short, acute lobes each side above the middle, at flowering 
time thin, slightly hairy above, pubescent beneath, when mature 
coriaceous, dark green and glabrous above, paler below, usually 
2-2.5 inches long, 1.5-2 inches broad, on young and vigorous shoots 
somewhat larger and broadly or concavely cuneate or rounded at 
the base, petioles stout, 4-8 lines long, margined at the apex, often 
becoming red or reddish with age; flowers 7-8 lines broad, many 
in a cluster, supported on long, slender villose branching 
peduncles, calyx tube hairy or glabrous, its lobes laciniately 
glandular serrate, elongated, soon reflexed, hairy, stamens 15-20, 
- anthers small, pink; fruit globose, scarlet, drooping, 4-6 lines long, 
flesh yellow, juicy, edible, nutlets 2-8, 3 lines long. 
Clayey soil. Albany and Albia, Rensselaer co. Flowers from 
May 15-25, fruit ripens in September and usually hangs on the 
branches till late in October. Sometimes a few persist through the 
winter. 
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SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PLANTS OF THE SUSQUE- 
HANNA VALLEY 
BY FRANK E. FENNO 
Dryopteris goldieana (Hook.) Gray 
Aspidium goldieanum Hook. 
Goldie’s shield fern 
Hillsides near Nichols. Infrequent. August. 
