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season, with mostly deciduous glands, 1.5-2 cm. in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, rounded or truncate at the broad base, 

 coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed and often 5-6 cm. long and wide, 

 with stout midribs, prominent primary veins, reticulate veinlets 

 and stout conspicuously glandular petioles. Flowers 9-10 mm. in 

 diameter, on long slender pedicels, in small compact mostly 7-10- 

 nowered corymbs, the long lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic. the lobes short, slender, acumin- 

 ate, minutely glandular-dentate above the middle, reflexed after 

 anthesis; stamens 8-10, usually 10; anthers rose color; styles 2-4. 

 usually 3. Fruit ripening early in October, on short stout drooping 

 pedicels, in usually 1- or 2-fruited clusters, globose to depressed- 

 globose, flattened at the apex, obscurely pentagonal, greenish yellow 

 becoming dark purplish red, marked by numerous pale dots, some- 

 what pruinose, 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx slightly enlarged, with 

 a deep narrow cavity, and small spreading persistent lobes dark red 

 on the upper side below the middle; flesh firm, greenish yellow, rather 

 juicy and acid; nutlets 2-4, gradually narrowed and rounded at the 

 ends, ridged on the back, with a broad high deeply grooved ridge, 

 7-7.5 mm. long and 3.5-4 mm. wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m. high, with stout stems covered with gray scaly 

 bark, and slender nearly straight branchlets, light orange-green 

 more or less tinged with red when they first appear, becoming bright 

 orange-brown and marked by dark lenticels in their first season and 

 lighter-colored the following year, and armed with numerous stout 

 straight or slightly curved chestnut brown shining spines 1.5-4 cm. 

 long. 



Hillsides, Kit tanning, Armstrong County, O. E. Jennings, B. H. 

 Smith and C. S. Sargent, (No. 62 type) October 7, 1906, O. E. Jennings, 

 May 27, and June 1, 1907, O. E. and Grace K. Jennings, October 7, 1907. 

 5. Crataegus puta n. sp. 



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

 on the calyx-lobes. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly 

 cuneate at the base, finely often doubly serrate, with straight glandular 

 teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of broad acute lobes; 

 nearly fully grown when the flowers open at the end of May and then 

 thin, light yellow-green and slightly roughened above by short white 

 hairs and pale below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, smooth and 

 lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. 

 long and 3.5-4 cm. wide, with slender prominent midribs and thin 

 primary veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 



