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46 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



deep rose color in the autumn, 3-4 mm. in length. Flowers 1.2-1.4 cr.i. 

 in diameter, on long slender pedicels^ in crowded mostly 10-14-flowered 

 corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the' axils of upper leavcR; 

 calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, 

 long, slender, acuminftte, irregularly glandular-dentate, glabrous on the 

 outer, sparingly villose on the inner surface^ reflexed after anthcsis; 

 stamens 8-10; anthers pink; styles 2. Fruit ripening at the end of 

 September, on stout erect or spreading pedicels, in 2- or 3-fruited clusters, 

 short-oblong to ovate, dull yellow, with an orange-red cheek, 1-1.1 cm. 

 long and 9-10 mm. in diameter; calyx prominent, with a short tube, a 

 wide deep cavity broad in the bottom, and spreading persistent lobes; 

 flesh thin, green, dry and hard; nutlets usually 2, rounded and obtuse at 



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and 3-3.5 mm. wide. 



A tree 3-5 m. high, with a trunk often 1 dm. in diameter, 

 covered with dark scaly bark, large spreading and erect 

 branches forming a round-topped head, and stout branchlets 

 green tinged with red and marked by pale lenticels when they 



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slender straight or slightly 



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cm. long and ])(]•- 



branches; or often shrubby 



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logg (No. 2 type) , May 8, 1905, J. H. Kellogg and C. S. Sargent, 

 September 29, 1907. 



4. Crataegus liaiuata, n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface of the 

 young leaves and petioles. Leaves erect at the ends of the branches, 

 oblong-obovate, and sliort -pointed or rounded at the apex, gradually 

 narrowed to the entire base, and finely serrate above the middle, with 

 incurved glanchilar teeth; about one-third grown when the flowers open 

 in the first week of May and then thin, yellow-green, smooth, lustrous and 

 slijlitly hairy along the midribs above and pale below, and at maturity 

 subcoriaceous, smooth, lustrous, light yellow-green and glabrous on the 

 upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 5.5-6 cm. long and 3-5 cm. wide, 

 with thick midribs, and slender prominent primary veins; petioles stout, 

 narrow- wing-margined, slightly hairy on the upper side while young, soon 

 becoming ^abrous, occasionally glandular, 7-8 mm. in lengtli; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots obovate, acuminate and abniptly sliort-pointed at the apex, 

 acuminate at the base, more coarsely serrate, slightly lobed above the 

 middle, 6-7 cm. long and 4.5-5 cm. wide, with rose-colored midribs, more 



prominent veins and stout broadly winged rose-colored petioles. Flowers 



