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A broad round-topped shrub 5-6 m. high, with numerous stout 

 stems covered with dark gray scaly bark, spreading branches, and 

 slender only slightly zigzag branchlets dark orange-green and marked 

 by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming orange-brown and 

 lustrous in their first season and duller gray-brown the following year, 

 and armed with numerous straight or slightly curved purple shining 

 spines 1.5-2 cm. long. 



Rich hillsides, Bedford, Bedford County, B. H. Smith, (No. 18 type) 

 May 20, 1909, B. H. Smith and C. S. Sargent, September 6, 1909. 

 8. Crataegus amplifica n, sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, 

 coarsely often doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and 

 deeply divided into 3 or 4 pairs of acuminate spreading lobes ; nearly 

 half-grown when the flowers open about the 20th of May and then very 

 thin, dark yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs and 

 pale and slightly villose in the axils of the veins below, and at maturity 

 thin, dark yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale bluish 

 green and almost glabrous on the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long and 

 4-4.5 cm. wide, with thin midribs and primary veins; petioles 

 slender, glandular, with minute stipitate often persistent glands, 

 hairy while young, becoming glabrous, 2.5-3.5 cm. in length; leaves 

 on vigorous shoots thicker and often 7-8 cm. long and broad. Flowers 

 1.6-1.8 cm. in diameter, on long slender glabrous pedicels, in small 

 compact mostly 5-7- flowered corymbs, the long lower peduncles from 

 the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes long, 

 slender, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, 

 sparingly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 

 18-20; anthers pink; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a broad 

 ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening late in October and persistent 

 after the fall of the leaves, on erect pedicels, in 2-6-fruited clusters, 

 depressed-globose, flattened at the apex, full and rounded at the base, 

 pentagonal, light greenish yellow to dark russet, marked by numerous 

 dark dots, pruinose, becoming lustrous, 1-1.3 cm. in diameter; calyx 

 prominent, with a short tube, a deep narrow cavity pointed in the bot- 

 tom, and small spreading often deciduous lobes; flesh thin, hard, 

 light yellowish green ; nutlets 3-5, gradually narrowed and rounded at 

 the ends, often broader at the apex than at the base, ridged on the 

 back, with a high narrow ridge, 6-6.5 mm. long and 4-4.5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m. high, with stems sometimes 5 dm. in diameter, 

 covered with dark gray bark separating into long strips, and very 

 slender zigzag glabrous branchlets dark orange-green when they first 



