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bractlets fading brown and mostly persistent until the flowers 

 open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, thickly coated with long 

 white hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, 

 slender, acuminate, entire or minutely and irregularly glandular 

 serrate, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner 

 surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 15-20, usually 20; 

 anthers dark rose color ; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base 

 by a narrow ring of long white hairs. Fruit ripening from the 20th 

 to the end of September, on stout villose reddish pedicels, in few- 

 fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends 

 or obovate and slightly narrowed at the base, crimson, lustrous, 

 puberulous at the ends, marked by large pale dots ; calyx little en- 

 larged, with a deep narrow cavity, and slender spreading recurved 

 usually persistent lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle ; 

 flesh thin, juicy, dark yellow; nutlets 4 or 5, gradually narrowed 

 and acute at the ends or rounded at the base, rounded and grooved 

 or irregularly ridged on the back, 6-7 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



An arborescent shrub 7-8 m high, with stout spreading stems 

 covered with light gray scaly bark, small spreading and ascending 

 branches forming an open irregular head, and slender slightly zig- 

 zag branchlets, covered when they first appear with long matted 

 white hairs, light red or orange-brown, pubescent and marked by 

 pale lenticels in their first season, darker colored and glabrous the 

 following year and ultimately ashy gray, and armed with slender 

 nearly straight chestnut-brown shining spines 4.5-5 cm long. 



Low moist woods, Rochester (Knickerbocker woods), Baxter and 

 Dewing (# 302, type), October 10, 1904, May 21 and September 24, 

 1905, J. Dunbar, May 21, 1905. 



VI FL.ABEL.L,ATAE 



Fruit short-oblong to oval or obovate, scarlet, lustrous, 1.5-2 cm 

 long; flesh succulent; nutlets 3-5, grooved and occasionally ridged 

 on the back; leaves large, thin, ovate to-oblong, more or less acutely 

 lobed ; anthers rose color or pink. 



Stamens 20 



Leaves broadly ovate, glabrous above at maturity ; fruit obovate 



( I C. dayana 



Leaves oblong-ovate, scabrate above at maturity; fruit short-oblong 



2 C. limosa 



Stamens 10 



Anthers pink; leaves ovate, glabrous above at maturity; fruit 

 obovate 3 C. letchworthiana 



