﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  1903 
  43 
  

  

  red 
  or 
  crimson 
  when 
  ripe, 
  the 
  boat-shaped 
  calyx 
  lobes 
  erect 
  or 
  

   spreading, 
  their 
  tips 
  often 
  deciduous, 
  nutlets 
  3-5. 
  

  

  Clayey 
  soil. 
  Albany, 
  Copake, 
  Lansing-burg 
  and 
  Thompsons 
  

   Lake. 
  Flowers 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  May, 
  fruit 
  ripens 
  from 
  the 
  

   first 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  October. 
  Distinguished 
  from 
  the 
  preceding 
  

   species 
  by 
  its 
  fewer 
  stamens, 
  pink 
  or 
  purplish 
  anthers 
  and 
  crimson 
  

   fruit. 
  C. 
  p 
  r 
  u 
  i 
  n 
  o 
  s 
  a 
  differs 
  from 
  both 
  in 
  having 
  20 
  stamens 
  

   with 
  pink 
  anthers. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  common 
  species 
  about 
  Albany. 
  

  

  INTRICATAE 
  

  

  Fruit 
  medium, 
  yellowish 
  green, 
  orange 
  red 
  or 
  crimson, 
  nutlets 
  

   2-5, 
  ridged 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  ; 
  corymbs 
  few 
  liowered 
  ; 
  leaves 
  thick, 
  sub- 
  

   coriaceous. 
  

  

  Small, 
  rather 
  late 
  flowering 
  shrubs. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  hairy 
  when 
  young 
  1 
  

  

  Leaves 
  glabrous 
  C. 
  intricata 
  

  

  1 
  Anthers 
  pink 
  or 
  pinkish 
  purple 
  C. 
  peckii 
  

  

  1 
  Anthers 
  pale 
  yellow 
  C. 
  modest 
  a 
  

  

  Crataegus 
  intricata 
  Lange 
  

   Intricate 
  thorn 
  

  

  Small 
  shrub 
  3-8 
  feet 
  tall 
  with 
  few 
  erect 
  or 
  spreading 
  branches 
  ; 
  

   leaves 
  ovate, 
  broadly 
  ovate, 
  elliptic 
  or 
  oblong 
  elliptic, 
  thin 
  when 
  

   young, 
  becoming 
  thick 
  and 
  firm 
  with 
  age, 
  acute 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  or 
  cuneate 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  sharply 
  serrate, 
  with 
  3-4 
  

   acute 
  lobes 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  basal 
  pair, 
  on 
  leaves 
  of 
  young 
  vigorous 
  

   shoots, 
  often 
  enlarged 
  and 
  distinctly 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  pair 
  

   above 
  by 
  deep 
  sharp 
  excavations, 
  glabrous 
  both 
  sides, 
  petiole 
  

   slender, 
  4-12 
  lines 
  long, 
  glandular, 
  slightly 
  margined 
  at 
  the 
  apex; 
  

   flowers 
  in 
  clusters 
  of 
  4-8, 
  on 
  short, 
  mostly 
  glabrous 
  peduncles, 
  

   <?alyx 
  lobes 
  lanceolate, 
  slightly 
  laciniate 
  serrate, 
  stamens 
  5-10, 
  

   anthers 
  pale 
  yellow; 
  fruit 
  erect, 
  subglobose 
  or 
  obovate, 
  pointed 
  

   at 
  the 
  base, 
  pale 
  red 
  or 
  orange 
  red, 
  nutlets 
  3-4. 
  

  

  Hillsides 
  and 
  shaly 
  knolls. 
  Albany 
  and 
  Lansingburg. 
  Flow- 
  

   ers 
  May 
  20 
  to 
  June 
  1, 
  fruit 
  ripens 
  the 
  last 
  week 
  in 
  September 
  and 
  

   the 
  first 
  week 
  in 
  October, 
  and 
  soon 
  falls. 
  In 
  falling 
  it 
  often 
  car- 
  

   ries 
  the 
  peduncle 
  with 
  it. 
  The 
  spines 
  are 
  slender, 
  straight 
  or 
  

   nearly 
  so 
  and 
  usually 
  1-1.5 
  inches 
  long. 
  

  

  