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serrate, often deeply lobed, 10 to 12 cm long and 9 to 10 cm 

 wide, with stout glandular winged petioles. Flowers about 2 

 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in erect 

 sparingly hairy mostly 10-12-flowered corymbs, the elongated 

 lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx^tube nar- 

 rowly obconic, thickly covered with long white hairs, the lobes 

 separated by wide sinuses, slender, acuminate, entire, glabrous 

 on the upper surface, slightly villose on the lower surface, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens twenty; anthers red; styles 

 three or five. Fruit ripening in October, on long drooping nearly 

 glabrous pedicels, obovoid, rounded at the apex, gradually and 

 abruptly narrowed at the base, crimson, lustrous, marked by 

 small pale dots, 1.5 to 1.8 cm long and 1.3 to 1.5 cm in diameter; 

 calyx with a short neck, a broad deep cavity pointed in the bot- 

 tom, and spreading mostly deciduous lobes; flesh very thin, 

 orange-colored, dry and mealy; nutlets gradually narrowed and 

 rounded at the ends, slightly ridged on the back, 8 to 9 mm 

 wide, the narrow hypostyle extending to just below the middle 

 of the nutlet. 



An arborescent shrub 6 to 7 m high, with ascending stems 

 sometimes 3 dm in diameter at the base, and covered with ashy 

 gray scaly bark, and stout nearly straight glabrous branchlets 

 dark orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first 

 appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous at 

 the end of their first season and pale gray the following year, 

 and armed with stout nearly straight chestnut-brown spines 3 

 to 4 cm long. 



Pastures and meadows on the borders of Mud lake in Warren, 

 Herkimer county, common; J. V. Haberer (no. 2414), June 16 

 and October 9, 1907; Flaberer, Dunbar and Sargent, September 

 28, 1912. 



The blue color of the leaves of this species is unusual in plants 

 of the Coccineae group. It is named in memory of Benjamin 

 Davis Gilbert (1835-1907), a native of Clayville, New York, and 

 for many years a resident of Utica where he was a successful 

 bookseller and the agricultural editor of the Utica Morning Herald, 

 secretary of the New York Dairymen's Association, and secre- 

 tary and treasurer of the Central New York Farmers Club. Mr 

 Gilbert, who early became interested in ferns, was the author of 

 many papers on these plants and an industrious and careful 

 student of the flora of central New York. 



