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cavity pointed and tomentose in the bottom, and small reflexed often 

 deciduous lobes; flesh thin, very light yellow; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at 

 the ends, ridged on the back, with a low narrow ridge, 7-7.5 mm. long 

 and 4.5-5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 4-5 m. high, with stems sometimes 1 dm. in diameter 

 and covered with pale gray bark broken into small closely appressed 

 scales, and slender nearly straight branchlets dark orange-green and 

 marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming bright 

 chestnut brown and lustrous in their first season and dark red-brown 

 the following year, and armed with numerous slender nearly straight 

 chestnut brown ultimately dark gray spines 3-4 cm. long and persis- 

 tent and branched on old stems. 



Linesville, Crawford County, 0. E. Jennings, (No. 84 type) June 

 12 and October 9. 1907. 



Well distinguished from the other species in this group by its narrow 

 oval or pyriform-oval fruits. 

 6. Crataegus gaudens a. sp. 



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

 petioles. Leaves ovate to oval, acuminate, acutely or obtusely 

 concave-cuneate at the base, finely doubly serrate, with straight 

 glandular teeth, and divided into 3 or 4 pairs of short broad acute 

 lateral lobes; not more than one-third grown when the flowers open 

 late in May and then thin, dark yellow-green and slightly hairy along 

 the midribs above and paler and sparingly villose on the midribs 

 below, and at maturity thin, dark green and lustrous on the upper 

 surface, pale on the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long and 3.5-4 cm. wide, 

 with thin prominent midribs and primary veins; petioles slender, 

 slightly wing-margined at the apex, sparingly hairy on the upper 

 side while young, soon glabrous, glandular, with minute usually per- 

 sistent glands, 2.5-3 cm. in length. Flowers 2 cm. in diameter, on 

 long slender pedicels, in narrow mostly 6- or 7-flowered corymbs, the 

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

 obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, short, broad, 

 acuminate, entire, or minutely glandular-dentate above the middle, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 18-20; anthers pink; styles 3-5. 

 Fruit ripening the middle of October, on long slender pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, pyriform, truncate or rounded at the apex, gradually 

 narrowed to the long slender base often extending down one side of 

 the pedicel, 5-angled, deep orange-red, marked by large pale dots, 

 pruinose, 1.3-1.6 cm. long and 1.1-1.4 cm. in diameter; calyx little 

 enlarged, with a short tube, a wide deep cavity pointed and tomentose 



