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middle; not more than a quarter-grown when the flowers open the first of 

 April or late in March and then thin, yellow-green and roughened above by 

 Bhort white hairs and \illose below, especially on the midribs and veins, 

 and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark blue-green, lustrous and 

 smooth above and pale blue-green and more or less villose on the slender 

 yellow midribs, primary veins and reticulate vcinlets below, 5-6 cm. long 

 and 3-3.5 cm. wide; petioles slender, narrow-wihg-mar^netl often to 

 below the middle, 8-15 mm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots thicker, 

 broadly obovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded or abruptly 

 cuneate at the base, often 6-7 cm. long and 5 cm. wide. Flowers about 

 1.5 cm. in diameter, on long stout densely villose pedicels, in wide hairy 

 mostly 7-10-flowered corymbs, the long lower peduncles from the axils of 

 upper leaves; calyx-tube broadly obconic, thickly covered with long 

 matted white hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, long, 

 slender, acuminate, finely glandular-serrate, villose below and glabrous 

 above on the outer surface, sUghtly villose on the inner surface, reflexed 



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after an thesis; stamens 20; anthers pale yellow; styles 5. Fruit ripening 

 late in September, on stout spreading hairy pedicels, in few-fruited droop- 

 ing clusters, subglobose, often a little longer than wide, dull red, marked 

 by conspicuous pale dots, 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx prominent, with 

 a very wide shallow cavity, and spreading often appressed coarsely serrate 

 lobes densely \nllose on the upper side; flesh thick, yellow, smooth and 

 edible; nutlets 5, thin, gradually narrowed and acute at the ends, rounded 

 and slightly grooved on the back, 6-7 mm. long, and 5-5.5 mm. wide. 



A tree 7-8 m. high, with a trunk 2-2.5 dm. in diameter; 

 covered with dark scaly bark, stout spreading and ascending 

 branches forming a wide open head, and stout shghtly zigzag 

 branchlcts tinged with red, marked by large pale lenticcls 



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brown the following year, and armed with very numerous 

 slender straight or sliglitly curved purplish shining ultimately 

 dull gray spines 4-G cm. long, persistent, very numerous and 



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Hillsides in rich soil. Neck City, Jasper County, E. /. 

 Palmer, (No, 4 type) August 17, 1902, April 15, 1903, (No. 

 4 A) July 29, 1906, March 31, 1907, (Nos, 4 B and 4 C) March 

 31, 1907. 



5, Crataegus succincta, n. sp. 



Leaves obovate, acute and short-pointed at the apex, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the entire base, and finely serrate usually only above the middle, 

 with straight or incurved glandular teeth; when they unfold covered with 



