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when they first appear, soon glabrous and light bright chestnut- 
brown and very lustrous during their first year, becoming dull red- 
dish brown the following season, and armed with slender straight 
chestnut-brown shining spines 3-5 cm. long. 
Rocky borders of woods, eastern base of Marsh Hill, Ferrisburg, 
Addison County, Vermont, Ezra Brainerd (no. 17 b type!), August 
1900, October 1901, 1903, Brainerd and Sargent, September 1905, 
W. W. Eggleston (no. 3338), May 1903. 
Formerly referred to C. coccinea, Linnaeus, C. praetermissa differs 
from that species in its much thinner broader and more deeply lobed 
leaves and fewer-flowered corymbs, in its narrow pointed and only 
slightly ridged nutlets, and in its hairy fruit. It resembles C. Faxoni, 
Sarg., in the general shape of the leaves, but the leaves of C. Faxoni 
are much thicker, less deeply lobed and more hairy on the two sur- 
faces while young, the pedicels are longer and soon glabrous, the fruit 
is larger, and the nutlets are longer, with more prominent dorsal 
ridges. 
Anthers rose color or pink. 
Crataegus propria, n. sp. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded 
or cuneate at the entire base, finely and often doubly serrate above, ` 
with incurved glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle 
into 4 or 5 pairs of broad acuminate spreading lobes, tinged with red 
when they unfold, about half grown when the flowers open the mid- 
dle of May and then thin, yellow-green and covered above by short 
white lustrous hairs and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity 
thin and firm, glabrous, dark dull yellow-green on the upper, pale on 
the lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide, with slender yellow 
midribs sometimes tinged with red toward the base, and thin primary 
veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, 
wing-margined at the apex, slightly grooved, pubescent while young, 
soon becoming glabrous, glandular toward the apex, with minute 
dark stipitate glands: usually rose color in the autumn, 1.6—2 cm. in 
length ; stipules linear, glandular, fading brown, caducous. Flowers 
on slender pedicels coated with matted pale hairs, in compact usually 
9—12-flowered corymbs, with linear acuminate rose-colored bracts and 
bractlets ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous except at the base, 
the lobes slender, acuminate and red at the apex, glandular on the 
margins, glabrous on the outer, puberulous on the inner surface, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5; anthers pale rose color ; styles 2 
or 3. Fruit ripening at the end of September and soon falling, on 
slender glabrous reddish pedicels, in small drooping few-fruited clus- 
ters, oblong, sometimes slightly ovate, full and rounded at the ends, 
