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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  midrib 
  and 
  principal 
  veins, 
  petioles 
  villose 
  and 
  glandular; 
  

   corymbs 
  commonly 
  few 
  flowered, 
  peduncles 
  and 
  calyx 
  covered 
  

   with 
  long 
  matted 
  whitish 
  hairs, 
  stamens 
  10, 
  anthers 
  pale 
  yellow 
  

   or 
  whitish; 
  fruit 
  oblong 
  obovate 
  or 
  subglobose, 
  often 
  narrowed 
  

   toAvard 
  the 
  base, 
  bright 
  red 
  or 
  scarlet, 
  7-8 
  lines 
  long, 
  6-7 
  broad, 
  

   nutlets 
  3-5. 
  

  

  Clayey 
  soil. 
  Port 
  Henry, 
  Crown 
  Point, 
  Fort 
  Ann, 
  Albany. 
  The 
  

   trees 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Albany 
  differ 
  from 
  those 
  found 
  in 
  

   the 
  more 
  northern 
  localities 
  in 
  having 
  broader 
  and 
  more 
  rounded 
  

   leaves, 
  which 
  are 
  sometimes 
  blunt 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  often 
  have 
  the 
  

   margin 
  coarsely 
  wavy, 
  curved 
  or 
  arched 
  as 
  if 
  there 
  was 
  an 
  ex- 
  

   cessive 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  tissues. 
  The 
  anthers 
  are 
  

   whitish, 
  not 
  pale 
  yellow 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  type, 
  and 
  the 
  fruit 
  is 
  globose 
  or 
  

   oval, 
  slightly 
  umbilicate 
  and 
  persistently 
  hairy. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  

   species 
  to 
  blossom 
  about 
  Albany, 
  the 
  flowers 
  appearing 
  from 
  May 
  

   10-15, 
  and 
  the 
  fruit 
  ripens 
  and 
  falls 
  early 
  in 
  September. 
  Perhaps 
  

   these 
  trees 
  belong 
  to 
  a 
  distinct 
  species. 
  The 
  trees 
  in 
  the 
  Fort 
  Ann 
  

   locality 
  have 
  recently 
  been 
  cut 
  down. 
  

  

  Crataegus 
  pringlei 
  Sarg. 
  

  

  Pringle's 
  thorn. 
  

   Rhodora, 
  3 
  : 
  21. 
  Silva 
  N. 
  A. 
  13 
  : 
  111, 
  t. 
  672. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  Mus. 
  

  

  55th 
  An. 
  Rep't, 
  p>944 
  

  

  Tree 
  or 
  large 
  shrub 
  12-25 
  feet 
  tall 
  with 
  widely 
  spreading 
  

  

  branches 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  rounded 
  head; 
  leaves 
  broadly 
  ovate 
  or 
  oval. 
  

  

  1-2 
  inches 
  long 
  and 
  nearly 
  as 
  broad 
  at 
  flowering 
  time, 
  acute 
  or 
  

  

  bluntly 
  pointed 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  subtruncate 
  or 
  broadly 
  cuneate 
  at 
  the 
  

  

  base, 
  coarsely 
  and 
  sharply 
  serrate, 
  with 
  34 
  short 
  broad 
  acute 
  lobes 
  

  

  each 
  side, 
  pubescent 
  above 
  with 
  short 
  appressed 
  whitish 
  hairs, 
  

  

  slightly 
  villose 
  below 
  on 
  the 
  principal 
  veins 
  and 
  midrib, 
  yellowish 
  

  

  green 
  above, 
  paler 
  below, 
  often 
  convex 
  by 
  the 
  deflection 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  margins, 
  petioles 
  slender, 
  villose; 
  corymbs 
  few 
  flowered, 
  stamens 
  

  

  5-10, 
  anthers 
  pink 
  or 
  pinkish 
  purple, 
  calyx 
  lobes 
  hairy 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  

  

  surface, 
  peduncles 
  short, 
  villose; 
  fruit 
  subglobose, 
  oval 
  or 
  oblong, 
  

  

  sometimes 
  slightly 
  narrowed 
  toward 
  the 
  base, 
  generally 
  hairy 
  at 
  

  

  I 
  lie 
  ends, 
  6-7 
  lines 
  long 
  and 
  nearly 
  as 
  broad, 
  bright 
  red 
  or 
  scarlet, 
  

  

  the 
  calyx 
  lobes 
  spreading 
  or 
  erect. 
  

  

  