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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  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 
  . 
  g 
  r 
  a 
  v 
  e 
  s 
  i 
  i 
  

  

  Anthers 
  purple 
  or 
  red 
  1 
  

  

  1 
  Stamens 
  20 
  C.brainerdi 
  

  

  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 
  at 
  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, 
  

   occasionally 
  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. 
  

  

  