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veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, rose color 

 while young, glandular, with often persistent glands, 1.5-2 cm. in length. 

 Flowers 1.8-2 cm. in diameter, on slender pedicels, in compact mostly 

 5-7-flowered corymbs, with linear-obovate to linear glandular rose-colored 

 bracts and bractlets often persistent until the flowers open, the long lower 

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

 the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, short, broad, acuminate, 

 entire or minutely glandular-dentate, reflexed after anlhcsis; stamens 10; 

 anthers pale pink; styles 2-5. Fruit ripening early in October, on slender 

 drooping pedicels, in few usually 1- or 2-fruited clusters, subglobose, often 

 broader than high, distinctly angled, green faintly flushed with rose color, 

 pruinose, 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, without^ a tube, 

 with a broad shallow cavity, and small erect and spreading or incurved 

 persistent green lobes; flesh thin, green, dry and hard; nutlets usually 3 or 

 4, narrowed and rounded at the base, more acute at the apex, ridged on 

 the back, with a narrow grooved ridge, about 5 mm. long, and 4 mm. wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m. high, with stems 5-8 cm. in diameter, cov- 



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branches, and slender zigzag branchlets dark orange-green 

 when they first appear, becoming dull dark olive-green and 

 marked by pale lenticcls in their first season and dull reddish 

 brown the following year, and armed with slender straight 

 purplish shining spines 2-3 cm. long. 



Oak woods on limestone hills, Pacific, Franklin County 

 J. 11. Kellogg, (no number) April 24 and September 31, 1907. 



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15. Crataegus brachypoda, n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface of the 

 young leaves and petioles. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly 

 cuneate at the broad entire or glandular base, coarsely doubly serrate above, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 5 or 6 pairs of short 

 broad lateral lobes; about one-third grown when the flowers open eariy 

 in May and then thin, yellow-green and slightly roughened above by 

 short white hairs, and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, blue-green, 

 smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, pale bluish green on the lower 

 surface, 5.5-6 cm. long and 4-5 cm. wide, with thick midribs, and prom- 

 inent primary veins arching obUquely to the points of the lobes; petioles 

 slender, slightly wing-mar^ned at the apex, soon becoming glabrous, gland- 

 ular wliile young, with minute often stipitatc glands, 2-3 cm. in length; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots rounded or cordate at the broad base, more 

 coarsely serrate, often 8-9 cm. long and 6-7 cm. wide, with foliaceous 

 lunate glandular-serrate stipules. Flowers 2 cm. in diameter, on very 



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