80 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
and extending to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, sparingly 
glandular, with persistent glands, 3-3.5 cm. in length; stipules linear- 
obovate, acuminate, more or less falcate, glandular-serrate, bright 
red, usually persistent until the flowers open; leaves on vigorous ~ 
shoots more coarsely serrate, sometimes more deeply divided by 
narrow sinuses into acuminate lobes, often 10 cm. long and 8 cm. wide. 
Flowers 2 cm. in diameter, on slender pedicels, in mostly 4-7-flowered 
corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves, their 
bracts and bractlets obovate to linear, glandular, red, conspicuous 
early in the season; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually 
narrowed from broad bases, abruptly acuminate, laciniately glandular- 
serrate near the middle, sparingly villose on the upper surface, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers dark rose color; styles 4 
or5. Fruit ripening in October, on slender erect pedicels, in few- 
fruited clusters, broader than high, slightly angled, green blotched 
with red, 10-11 mm. wide and 8-9 mm. high; calyx little enlarged, 
with a short tube, a wide deep cavity rounded in the bottom, and 
spreading lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, dry 
and hard; nutlets 4 or 5, thin and rounded at the ends, rounded and 
irregularly grooved on the back, about 5 mm. long and 4 mm. wide. 
Rich woods, Noel, Joplin County (B. F. Bush, 4, type, 
August 8 and October 12, 1908, April 25 and August 4, 
1909). 
I have no notes on the size, habit and character of the 
bark of this species. It differs from Crataegus bracteata 
Sargent, which is common in Joplin County, in its thicker 
leaves, rather smaller flowers, the smaller bracts and bractlets 
of the inflorescence, and in the smaller calyx of the fruit. 
It is, however, best distinguished from Crataegus bracteata 
by the absence of the short hairs on the upper surface of 
the young leaves, for the presence or absence of such hairs 
on the leaves of the Pruinosae is constant in the different 
species of this group and an important character for their 
arrangement. 
MOLLEs. 
Crataegus dasyphyllia, n. sp. 
Leaves ovate, acute, rounded or abruptly cuneate at the broad base, 
coarsely doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and sometimes 
slightly lobed above the middle; about one-third grown when the 
flowers open from the 10th to the middle of April, and then coated 
above with soft white hairs and thickly covered below with hairy 
tomentum, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, smooth on the upper 
