52 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



pale yellow; styles 1 or 2, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale 

 tonienlum. Fruit ripening and falling at the end of September, on slender 

 drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, broader than high, truncate 

 at the ends, slightly angled, dark crimson, lustrous, marked by occa- 

 sional large pale dots, 1.2-1.3 cm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with 

 a deep narrow cavity, and erect and slightly incurved green persistent 

 lobes; flesh thin, light yellow-green, solid, rather juicy; nutlets 2, rounded 

 and obtuse at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad low slightly 

 grooved ridge, 7-8 mm- long, and about 4 mm. wide, or when 1, 5-6 mm. 

 in diameter. 



A tree 5-G m. high, with a tall trunk 1.5-1,8 dm. in diam- 

 eter, covered with light red-brown scaly bark, large spreading 

 branches forming a broad flat-topped head, and stout nearly 



branchlots 



firat 



end of their first season and dull gray-brow 



year 



curved 



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nut-brown ultimately dull gray spines 2-5 cm. long. 



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long 



September 29^ 1907, (No. 5) /. H. Kellogg 



12. Crataegus ferox, n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of a few caducous hairs on the upper sur- 

 face of the young leaves. Lreaves oblong-obovate, rounded or acute at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed to the entire base/^and finely doubly serrate 

 above, with incurved glandular teeth; nearly half-grown when the flowers 

 open the middle of May and then thin, dark green and shining above and 

 pale below, and at maturity dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, 

 pale on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with stout 

 midribs often rose-colored in the autumn, and obscure primary veins 

 mostly within the parenchyma; petioles stout, wing-margined nearly to 

 the base, 5-6 mm. in diameter; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly obovate, 

 acute or rounded at the apex, more coarsely serrate, often 6-7 cm. long 



and 5-6 cm. wide. 



ped 



in wide lax mostly 7-12-flowered corymbs, the long slender lower peduncles 

 from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes 

 short, slender, acuminate, entire or occasionally dentate near the middle, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pale yellow; styles 1 or 2, 

 surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the 

 end of October, on slender spreading or drooping pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, subglobose to short-oblong or often slightly obovate, scariet, fre- 

 quentlyflushed with yellow, lustrous, marked by large dark dots, 1.2-1,4 cm. 



\r.r.iT 1-1 9 PTYi iTi f^inmpti^r: calvx httlc enlarged, with a shallow nurrgw 



