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orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, 

 becoming dark chestnut brown and lustrous in their first season and 

 dull gray-brown the following year, and armed with numerous stout 

 or slender slightly curved purple shining spines 3-6 cm. long. 



Upland pastures and the borders of woods, common; near Bedford 

 Springs, Bedford County. B. H. Smith and C. S. Sargent, (No. 296 

 type) September 30, 1905, September 7, 1909, B. H. Smith, May 18, 

 1906, May 22, 1909; road above Bedford Springs Hotel, Bedford, 

 Bedford County, B. H. Smith, May 22, 1909, B. H. Smith and C. S. 

 Sargent, September 7. 1909; field near cemetery. Bedford, Bedford 

 County, B. H. Smith, (No. 17) May 22, 1909, B. H. Smith and C. S. 

 Sargent, September 7, 1909. 

 4. Crataegus daorioidea n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic or slightly obovate, acute, acuminate or rarely 

 orbicular and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the long 

 concave-cuneate base, sharply often doubly serrate, with straight 

 glandular teeth, and sometimes slightly divided above the middle into 

 small acute lobes, nearly fully grown when the flowers open about 

 the 20th of May and then very thin, dark yellow-green, slightly 

 roughened by short white hairs and villose on the midribs above and 

 pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, dull yellow-green, 

 smooth or scabrate on the upper surface and pale yellow-green on the 

 lower surface, 3.5-5 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with thin yellow 

 midribs and primary veins : petioles slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, sparingly villose on the upper side while young, becoming 

 glabrous, glandular, with minute glands, 1 .5-2.5 cm. in length. Flowers 

 very fragrant, 2-3 cm. in diameter, on short slender slightly villose 

 pedicels, in small compact 3-5-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles 

 from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, 

 the lobes short, broad, laciniately glandular-serrate, glabrous, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 5 or 6; anthers faintly tinged with pink, soon 

 becoming white; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening early in October, obovate, 

 gradually narrowed to the base, somewhat narrowed at the apex, 

 orange-red, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, 1.2-1.5 cm. long and 

 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a short tube, a deep 

 narrow cavity pointed in the bottom, and small spreading often 

 deciduous lobes ; flesh yellow-green, dry and hard ; nutlets 3, grad- 

 ually narrowed and rounded at the ends, rather broader at the base 

 than at the apex, ridged on the back, with a deeply grooved ridge, 

 6-6.5 mm. long and 3.5-4 mm. wide. 



A shrub 1-2 m. high, with very slender stems covered with smooth 



