CRATAEGUS IN MISSOURI. 47 



about 1.2 cm. in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in small mostly 7-10- 

 flowered corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from 

 the base, short, wide, acuminate, irregularly glandular-serrate, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 8-10; anthers pink; styles 1 or 2, usually 1. 

 Fruit ripening the middle of October, on very slender red pedicels, m 

 few-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong to ovate, Ught orange-red 

 more or less blotched with pale green, lustrous, marked by large dark dots, 

 1 2-1 3 cm. long and 1.1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with 

 a deep narrow cavity, and small spreading often deciduous lobes ; flesh 

 thick, yellow-green, rather juicy; nutlets 1 or 2, usually 1, gradually 

 narrowed to the rounded ends, slightly ridged on the back, with a narrow 

 grooved ridge, 7-8 mm. long, and 4-4.5 mm. in diameter. 



A tree 3^ 



diam 



eter, covered with dark scaly bark, small erect and slightly 

 spreading branches forming a wide irregular head, slender 

 zigzag branchlets dark orange-green when they first appear, 



and 



and 



armed 



dull erav spines 3.5-4 



long. 



J. H. Kellogg 



H 



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Shrubs 



(1908). 



Banks of streams, Grandin, Carter County, C. S. Sargent 

 (No. 5) October 1900, B. F. Bush (No. 410), May 1901. 



6. Crataegus tardiflora, n, sp. 



calyx 



/ 



lobes. Leaves obovate, rounded or usually acuminate at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed to the concave-cuneate entire base, and finely serrate 

 above the middle, with incurved glandular teeth; deeply tinged with red 

 when they unfold, nearly fully grown when the flowers open from the 20th 

 to the end of May and then yellow-green, smooth and lustrous above and 



bel 



lustrous on the upper surface, dull bluish green on the lower surface, 4-5 

 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with stout prominent yellow midribs, and thm 

 prominent primary veins; petioles stout, wing-margined to the base, 5-7 

 mm. in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots acuminate at the ends, coarsely 



