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stout, broadly winged and conspicuously glandular. Flowers 1.8 

 cm. in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in wide compact 3-7, usually 

 5-7-flowered corymbs, with large conspicuous viscid glandular bracts 

 and bractlets mostly deciduous before the flowers open; calyx-tube 

 broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, 

 short, acuminate, sharply glandular-serrate near the middle, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pink; styles 2 or 3. Fruit 

 ripening in October, on elongated slender erect or spreading pedicels, 

 in mostly 3- or 4-fruited clusters, slightly obovate, full and rounded 

 at the apex, green blotched with red (September 7th), 8-10 mm. long 

 and nearly as broad; calyx little enlarged, with a short tube, a deep 

 narrow cavity, and spreading and reflexed lobes; flesh thin, green and 

 hard; nutlets 2 or 3, rounded at the ends, rounded and ridged on the 

 back, with a broad low slightly grooved ridge, 5-6 mm. long and about 

 4 mm. wide. 



A narrow shrub rarely 1 m. high, with very slender erect stems 

 and branches, and slender nearly straight branchlets orange-brown 

 and marked by orange-colored lenticels when they first appear, becom- 

 ing chestnut brown and very lustrous in their first season and gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with numerous slender straight 

 chestnut brown shining spines 3-4 cm. long. 



Fields on hills above Bedford Springs, Bedford County, B. H. 

 Smith and C. S. Sargent, (No. 11 type) May 26, 1908, September 7, 

 1909, B. H. Smith. May 22, 1909. 



10. AxOMAL.E. 



Flowers in 8-15-flowered corymbs; anthers rose color; fruit short- 

 oblong to oval, 1-1.5 cm. in length; nutlets usually marked by 

 obscure ventral depressions; leaves cuneate. 

 Stamens 20; leaves broad-ovate; fruit oval, orange-red; arbor- 

 escent 1. C. putata. 



Stamens 15-20; leaves ovate to oval; fruit short-oblong, dark 

 red; shrubby, spreading into large thickets 2. C. errata. 



1. Crataegus putata n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface 

 of the young leaves. Leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, gradually 

 or abruptly cuneate at the base, finely often doubly serrate, with 

 straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of 

 small spreading lateral lobes ; about half-grown when the flowers open 

 at the end of May and then thin, yellow-green, smooth, lustrous, and 

 slightly hairy along the midribs above and pale below, and at maturity 



