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

 or occasionally glandular-dentate, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; 

 anthers pale yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of 

 pale hairs. Fruit ripening early in October and soon faUing, on short pedi- 

 cels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose, green more or less tinged with * 

 red, finally becoming dull red, 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx httlc enlarged, 

 with a small shallow cavity, and spreading appresscd often deciduous 

 lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle; flesh thin, green, dry 

 and hard; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and acute at the ends, or when 3, rounded 

 at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad grooved ridge, or when 5, 



5-6 mm. loner, and 3.5-4 



wide. 



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covered with dark rough scaly bark, spreading and ascending 

 branches, and stout slightly zigzag branchlcts dark orange- 

 green tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dark 

 chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked by pale lenticels in 

 their first season and dull reddish brown the following year, 

 and armed with numerous slender nearly straight purple 

 shining spines 2.5-5 cm. long. 



Gravelly banks of streams near Grandin, Carter County, 

 B. F, Bush (No. 4 type), May C, and Oct. 10, 1905, (No. 4 A) 

 May 7 and Oct. 12, 1905, also (No. 2^ . . 

 Grove, Ripley County, B. F. Bush, (Nos.' 386, 387, 388) 

 May 7, 1901. 



16. Crataegus sicca, n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic to ovate, acuminate, gradually narrowed to the cuneate 

 entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with incurved glandular teeth, 

 and slightly divided above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of small acute lobes; 

 deeply tinged wuth red when they first appear, about one-half grown 

 when the flowers open from the 20th to the end of April and then very thin, 

 roughened above by short w^hite hairs and slightly hairy on the midribs 

 below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow-green, gla- 

 brous, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 

 3.5-4.5 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with thin prominent sparingly hairy 

 midribs and veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 villose while young, becoming nearly glabrous, often dark rose color in 

 the autumn, 8-12 mm. in length. Flowers 1.8-2 cm. in diameter, on short 

 slender slightly villose pedicels, in small compact mostly 5-S-flowered 

 corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes short, slender, acuminate, glandular- 

 serrate usually only above the middle, often light red, glabrous on the outer, 

 villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers 



