Protologue Description: 103. CRATAEGUS EAMESII Sarg.

Leaves oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, concave –cuneate or rounded at the entire or glandular base, sharply often doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and divided into numerous short acute lateral lobes, about half grown when the flowers open the middle of May, and then membranaceous, light yellow-green and roughened above by short rigid white hairs and pale and glabrous below with the exception of a few hairs on the midrib, and slender primary veins arching to the point of the lobes, and at maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark rather dull green, and smooth above, pale yellow-green below, 3’-3½’ long, and 2’-2½’ wide; petioles slender, wing-margined above, villose at first, becoming glabrous, 1’-1½’ in length; leaves at the end of vigorous shoots usually rounded or truncate at the broad base, more deeply lobed, often 3½’-4’ long and 3½’ wide. Flowers about ÿ’ in diameter on slender slightly hairy pedicels, crowded compact 5-25, usually 5-18 flowered sparingly villose corymbs, with linear-obovate coarsely glandular reddish bracts and bractlets, mostly deciduous before the flowers open; calyx narrowly obconic, glabrous on the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface; stamens 5-10, usually 5-8; anthers deep rose-purple; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale pubescence. Fruit ripening in early September and soon falling, on stout pedicels in large many-fruited clusters, short-oblong to slightly ovoid, rounded at ends, bright cherry-red, lustrous, pruinose, marked by a few large dark dots, 5/8’-3/4’ long, and about ½’ in diameter, calyx only slightly enlarged, the lobes erect and incurved, coarsely serrate, dark red on the upper side below in the middle, their tips deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, pale yellow, juicy; nutlets 4 or 5, narrow at the ends, irregularly ridged often with a high broad ridge, and sometimes grooved on the back, about ¼’ long.
A tree, occasionally 20º high, with a trunk a foot in diameter, ascending branches forming a narrow open head, and stout glabrous branches bright reddish brown and rather lustrous during their first season, becoming light gray slightly tinged with red on their second year, and armed with stout or straight curved spines 1’ 11/2’ long; or occasionally shrubby, with a short trunk divided near the ground into several spreading stems.
Distribution. Rich moist ground, Stratford Fairfield County (E.H. Eames), and Ansonia, New Haven County, Connecticut (E.B. Harger).

N.B. This protologue taken from 2nd edition. To be amended.