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in their first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and 

 armed with very numerous stout straight or slightly curved chestnut 

 brown shining spines 4-5 cm. long, and occasionally persistent on old 

 stems. 



Rich hillsides; common; Bedford, Bedford County, B. H. Smith and 

 C. S. Sargent, (No. 298 type) September 30, 1905, B. H. Smith, May 

 18, 1906; border of woods near Bedford Springs, Bedford County. 

 B. H. Smith and C. S. Sargent, (Nos. 9 and 10, with darker rose colored 

 anthers) May 26, 1908, September 7, 1909, B. H. Smith, September 17, 

 1908. May 22, 1909. 

 13. Crataegus torta n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the leaves and petioles. 

 Leaves ovate, acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, finely 

 doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 

 paii-s of narrow acuminate lateral lobes; more than half-grown when 

 the flowers open from the middle to the end of May, and then thin, 

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

 and pale and sparingly villose on the midribs and veins below, and at 

 maturity thin, dark green and scabrate on the upper surface, paler 

 on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide, with thin 

 midribs and primary veins; petioles slender, sparingly hairy on the 

 upper side while young, soon becoming glabrous, glandular, with usually 

 deciduous glands, 2-2.5 cm. in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots thicker, 

 usually rounded or truncate at the broad base, more coarsely serrate, 

 more deeply lobed, and often 5-6 cm. long and broad, with stout 

 winged glandular petioles. Flowers 2.5 cm. in diameter, on short 

 slender pedicels, in small compact mostly 4-7-flowered corymbs, the 

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

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

 wide, acuminate, entire or slightly glandular-dentate near the middle, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 16-20; anthers pink; styles 3-5. 

 Fruit ripening late in October and persistent until after the leaves have 

 fallen, on slender pedicels, in 4-7-fruited erect or spreading clusters, 

 short-oblong, 5-angled, rounded at the apex, flattened at the base, 

 light yellow or russet green, marked by large dark dots, rather lustrous, 

 8-10 mm. in diameter; calyx prominent, with a distinct tube, a broad 

 deep cavity pointed in the bottom, and small spreading usually 

 deciduous lobes; flesh thin, hard, yellow-green, acidulous; nutlets 

 3-5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, slightly ridged or 

 rounded and grooved on the back, 5.5-6 cm. long and 4 mm. wide. 



A slender tree 5 or 6 m. high, with a trunk sometimes 8-10 cm 



