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apex, with minute caducous glands, 2.5-3 cm m length; stipules 

 linear-falcate, glandular, fading brown, caducous; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots broadly ovate to rhombic, acuminate, gradually 

 or abruptly cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate, more deeply 

 divided into broad acuminate spreading lobes and often 7-9 cm long 

 and 6-8 cm wide. Flowers 1.3-1-. 5 cm in diameter, on short stout 

 pedicels coated with long matted white hairs, in very compact 5 

 to 10-flowered hairy corymbs; calyx tube narrowly obconic, cov- 

 ered at the base with long white hairs and nearly glabrous above, 

 the lobes short, acuminate, laciniately glandular serrate, glabrous 

 on the outer, densely villose on the inner surface, reflexed after 

 anthesis; stamens 10-18; anthers pale yellow ; styles usually three. 

 Fruit ripening late in August or early in September, persistent for 

 several weeks, on short slightly hairy pedicels, in usually five to 

 seven-fruited drooping clusters, short oblong to subglobose, scarlet, 

 lustrous, marked by large pale dots, about 1 cm in diameter; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, and spreading and ap- 

 pressed lobes mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, 

 greenish yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets usually three, full and 

 rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad low slightly 

 grooved ridge, light colored, 7-8 mm long and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous small ascending stems, and 

 thin slightly zigzag branchlets thickly coated when they first 

 appear with matted pale hairs, becoming light orange-brown and 

 nearly glabrous during their first season and dark reddish brown the 

 following year, and armed with slender straight purplish spines 2.5- 

 3.5 cm long. 



Borders of woods in clayey soil at the margin of the bottoms of 

 the Hudson river; North Greenbush, Charles H. Peck (# 70, type), 

 May, July and October 1903; Peck and Sargent, August 1905. 



INTRICATAE 

 Stamens 10 



Anthers pale yellow 

 Crataegus intricata Lange 

 Bot. Tidskr. xix. 246 (1894). 



North Albany, Menands and Lansingburg, Charles H. Peck 

 (# ii2na), May and June 1903; also southern and western New 

 England. 



