CRATAEGUS IN MISSOURI, 85 



1. Crataegus viridis Linnaeus, Spec, 476 (1753),— Sargent, 



Silva N. Am. iv. 109, t. 187; Manual, 401, f. 320.— 

 Beadle in Small, Fl. Southeastern U. S. 540.— Britton, 

 Manual, 520. 



Crataegus arboresccns, Elliott, Sk. i. 550 (1821).— Torrey & Gray, FL 

 N. Am. i. 46G.— Nuttall, Silva, ii. 10, t. 45.— Chapman, FL 127. 



Des Peres River bottoms, Carondelet, St. Louis County, 

 7. H. Kellogg; Fenton, J. H. Kellogg (Nos, 1 & 2), April 29, 



1905, (No. 5) Oct. 1907; Gasconade, Gasconade County, 

 /. H, Kellogg, (No. 1) May 7, 1905; Osage, Cole County, 

 J. H. Kellogg, (No, 2) May G, 1905, (No. 8) October 1, 1907; 

 Campbell, Dunklin County, B. F. Bush (No. 29C); Butler 

 County (without locality) B. F. Bush (No. 3) ; Moark, (No. 3 A) 



bottoms, Illinois, very 



c*iovy C5uutii tiiiuugii ^1 Kansas lu easierij 



the Gulf States to Florida and Virginia, 



and through 



to 



2. Crataegus larga, n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and their 

 petioles. Leaves ovate to oval, rhombic or rarely obovate, acuminate at 

 the ends, and finely serrate, with incurved glandular teeth; nearly fully 

 grown when the flowers open in the first week of May and then thin, yellow- 

 green, lustrous and slightly hairy on the midribs above and paler and 

 furnished witli small tufts of axillary hairs below, and at maturity thin 

 but firm in texture, dark yellow-green,smooth, lustrous and glabrous above, 

 paler yellow-green and still slightly hairy below, 4-6 cm. long and 2- 

 3.5 cm. wide, with prominent yellow midribs, and thin primary veins; 

 petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, sparingly villose 

 while young, soon becoming glabrous, often rose color in the autumn, 1- 

 1.5 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, acuminate, rounded or 

 abruptly cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate, sometimes deeply lobed 

 by narrow sinuses, often 7-9 cm. long and 6-7 cm. wide, with stout 

 winged petioles and foliaceous lunate coarsely serrate persistent stipules. 

 Flowers 1.2 cm. in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in wide lax mostly 



15-20-flowered crowded 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 and glandular at the apex, 

 entire or occasionally minutely dentate, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 

 20; anthers pale yellow; styles 3-5, usually 5. Fruit ripening the middle 

 of October, on long slender drooping pedicels, in wide many-fruited clusters, 

 obovate, full and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed at the base, 

 scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, 6-7 mm. long and 7-8 mm. in 



diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and small 



