CRATAEGUS IN MISSOURI. 91 



1. Crataegus bracteata, n. sp. 



* Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and calyx- 

 lobes. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded, abruptly concave-cuneate or 

 cordate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight or 

 incurved glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 3 or 4 pairs of small 

 acuminate spreading lobes ; more than half-grown when the flowers open 

 the first of May and then thin, yellow-green, sUghtly roughened above by 

 short white hairs, and villose below at the base of the midribs and pnmary 

 veins, and at maturity thin, dull blue-green and scabrate or smooth on the 



surface, 6-8 



3-6 



arcimg ouiiqu^x^y .o the points of the lobes; petioles slender, shghtly wing- 

 margined at the apex, occasionally glandular, often rose color m the autumn, 

 2.5-5 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots subconaceous cordate or 

 rounded at the base, 6-7 cm. long and 5.5-6.5 cm. wide. Flowers 2-2.2 

 cm. in diameter, on long stout pedicels, in compact mostly 5- or 6-flowered 

 corymbs, with large foliaceous glandular bracts and bractlets persistant 

 until the flowers open, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; 

 calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, 

 acuminate, minutely glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, shghtly 

 pubescent on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; 

 anthers rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a narrow nng of 

 pale tomentum. Fruit ripening eariy in November, on long drooping or 

 spreading pedicels, in usually 1- or 2-fruited clusters, subglobose but often 

 rather broader than high, crimson, slightly pruinose, becoming lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, 1.2-1.4 cm. in diameter; calyx promment 

 with a broad deep cavity, and small spreading or incurved persistent 

 lobes ; flesh thick, yellow-green, dry and hard ; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and 

 „„„f. of ih^ ^nHs or when 3 rounded at the base, irregularly ndged on the 



4-4.5 mm 



numerous erect stems, and 



branchlets 



becoming light chestnut-red, lustrous and marked by small 

 pale lenticels in their first season and orange color and 

 lustrous in their second year, and armed with very nu- 

 merous stout or slightly curved purple shining spines 5-6.5 



cm. long. ■ 



Jasper County ; bottom-lands of Baker's Branch, two miles 



south of Webb City, E. J. Palmer and C. S. Sargent (No. 16 



2, 1901, E. J, Palmer, November 3, 1901, and 



1904, bottoms of Turkey Creek, E. J. Palmer, (No. 16A) 



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