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not deep, the lobes elongated, villose above, closely appressed or 
occasionally erect and incurved; flesh yellow, thin, sweet, soft and 
pulpy; nutlets 3 or 4, thick, very prominently ridged on the back, 
about 4s; in. long. 
A shrub often somewhat fastigiate in habit with slender erect stems 
12 or 15 feet in height, and slender glabrous only slightly zigzag lus- 
trous branchlets marked by oblong orange-colored ultimately gray 
lenticels, dark yellow-green when they first appear, light chestnut- 
brown and very lustrous during their first. season, often becoming 
orange-brown during their second year and finally ashy gray, and armed 
with stout or slender straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown 
spines from 1 to r4 in. long. 
Flowers from the 2oth to the end of May. Fruit ripens from the 
first to the middle of September and often remains on the branches 
until early in October. 
Rocky Limestone ridges, /. Œ. Jack, Rockfield, August 25, 1899, 
May and September, 1900, La Tortue, September and October, 1899, 
May and October, 1900, Caughnawaga, May and September, 1900. 
CRATAEGUS HOLMESIANA, Ashe (Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 10), 
J. G. Jack, Chateaugay, August, 1894, Rockfield, July, 1899, May, 
1900, Caughnawaga, September, 1899, May, r9oo, Beauharvois, 
May, 19oo. Also Lower Andoise, Cape Breton Island, W. Faxon, 
August, 1892, near Toronto, where it is probably common, 2. W. 
Beadle, 1899. 
'TENUIFOLIAE. 
CRATAEGUS ACUTILOBA, Sargent (RHODORA, iii. 23), Province of 
Quebec, 7. G. Jack, Montmorency Falls, August 20, 1895, September, 
1900, Adirondack Junction, May and August, 1899, Rockfield, Sep- 
tember, 1900, Island of Orleans, September, 1900, Levis, September, 
1900. l 
CRATAEGUS PASTORUM, Sargent (RHODORAa, iii, 24), 7. G. Jack, 
Caughnawaga, August, 1899, Montreal, West, May and September, 
1900, Adirondack Junction, September and October, 1900. 
CRATAEGUS SCABRIDA, Sargent (RHODORA, iii. 29), 7. G. Jack, 
Caughnawaga, August, 1899, Rockfield, May and September, 1900, 
Adirondack Junction, September, 1900. 
DILITATAE. 
CRATAEGUS DILITATA Sargent (Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 9), 7. Œ. Jack, 
Caughnawaga, May and September, 1900. 
