1910.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 213 



Hill above Panther Hollow. Schenley Park, Pittsburg-. Allegheny 

 County, O. E. and Grace K. Jennings, (No. 70 type) May 17, 1907, 

 O. E. Jennings. September 4, 1908, September 13, 1909. 



7. Crataegus rufipes Ashe. 



Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, XX, 51 (1904); Sargent, Proc. Acad. Nat, 

 Sci. Phila., 1905, 609. 



Keyser Valley, Scranton, Lackawanna County, B. H. Smith and 



A. Twining, (Xo. 66) May 23, 190S, A. Twining. September 14, 1908, 

 (No. 57) A. Twining, October 22, 1907. September 23, 190S; borders 

 of woods, Shady Valley Road, near Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, 



B. H. Smith. (No. 318) May 20, 1906, October 8, 1907, (No. 310) May 

 20, 1906. May 27 and October 8, 1907, B. H. Smith and C. S. Sargent, 

 May 27, 1908; meadows near Altoona, Blair County, B. H. Smith and 



C. S. Sargent, (No. 291) September 25, 1905; near Hillside Station, 

 Westmoreland County, O. E. Jennings, (No. 76) May 25, 1907. O. E. 

 and Grace'K. Jennings, September 16, 1908; also in Berks and Bucks 

 Counties. 



8. Crataegus antheina n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface 

 of the young leaves. Leaves ovate, acuminate, abruptly cuneate or 

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

 teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of small acuminate spreading 

 lateral lobes; less than half grpwn when the flowers open about 

 the 10th of May and then thin, bluish green and roughened above 

 by small white hairs, and at maturity thin, dark blue-green, smooth 

 and lustrous on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 4.5- 

 6.5 cm. long and 3-4.5 cm. wide, with thin midribs and primary veins ; 

 petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, glandular, with 

 often persistent glands, 1.5-3 cm. in length. Flowers 1.6-2 cm, 

 in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in 5-10-flowered corymbs, the 

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

 obconic, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, minutely glandular- 

 serrate or sometimes entire, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-8; 

 anthers dark rose color; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by 

 a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening the end of September, 

 on long slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short- 

 oblong, full and rounded at the apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed 

 at the base, scarlet, marked by small pale dots, slightly glaucous, 

 1-1.3 cm, long and 9-12 mm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with 

 a wide shallow cavity, and spreading and reflexed often deciduou.^ 

 lobes; flesh thin, yellow, rather juicy; nutlets 3 or 4, narrowed at 



