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AMAEAE. 



Crataegus olida. A flat bushy tree 5 m in height, with 

 glabrous bright purple-brown twigs armed with numerous 

 slender 4-5 cm-long- darker thorns. Leaves glabrous, thick and 

 firm, the blades 4-6 cm long, ovate, obovate or nearly orbicu- 

 lar, 2-3 pairs of shallow lobes above the middle, obtusely 

 serrate nearly to the base; petiole stout, 1.5-2 cm long, broad- 

 ly margined and glandular. The flowers are borne in 5-12 

 flowered glabrous compound strict corymbs; stamens normally 

 10, filaments stout, 5-6 mm long, lobes narrowly triangular, 

 subentire, reflexed after anthesis. Fruit, falling after the 

 leaves, and borne in slightly compound clusters, is obovate or 

 pyriform, 15-19 mm long, 14-16 mm thick, golden yellow; 

 flesh yellow, firm, slightly bitter; seed 2-4, usually 3, 7-8 mm 

 long, thick and coarse, the broad back grooved. 



J. A. Shafer, May 30 and Nov. 9, 1902; Pyler Falls, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



