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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



lanceolate- acuminate glandular rose-colored bracts and bractlets; 

 calyx tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed 

 from wide bases, acuminate, entire or slightly glandular serrate 

 near the middle, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; 

 anthers pale pink; styles usually 3. Fruit ripening early in 

 October, on short stout erect or drooping pedicels, in usually three 

 or four-fruited clusters, obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed 

 toward the usually pointed base, bright cherry-red, covered with a 

 glaucous bloom, marked by occasional small pale dots, 1-1.3 cm 

 long and 8-10 mm wide; calyx prominent, with a short distinct 

 tube, a broad shallow cavity, and spreading closely appressed lobes 

 dull red on the upper side below the middle and mostly persistent 

 on the ripe fruit; flesh thin, light yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 

 three, full and rounded at the base, gradually narrowed and acute 

 at the apex, rounded and sometimes slightly and irregularly ridged 

 on the back, light colored, 6-7 mm long and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m high, with numerous ascending stems and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets marked by small dark lenticels, dark 

 orange color when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut- 

 brown and very lustrous in their first winter and dull gray brown 

 the following year, and armed with slender nearly straight purplish 

 shining spines 2.5-3 cm long. 



Borders of woods at the margins of the bottom lands of the Hud- 

 son river at North Greenbush, Charles H. Peck (# 23ng, type) 

 May and October 1904; Peck and Sargent, August 1905. 



Anthers white 

 Crataegus conjuncta Sarg. 



Rhodora, v. 57 (1903). 



North Albany, West Albany, Greenbush, North Greenbush, 

 Lansingburg, Menands, Charles H. Peck (#14, 18, 57), May, June 

 and October 1903 and 1904. Common; also southern New Eng- 

 land to Illinois. 



Stamens 10 or less 

 Anthers rose color 

 Crataegus dissona Sarg. 



Rhodora, v. 60 (1903). 



North Albany, West Albany, Greenbush, Lansingburg, Thomp- 

 son Lake, Watervliet, Charles H. Peck (#171), May and October 

 1903; also southern New England to eastern Pennsylvania and 

 northern Illinois. 



