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ter; calyx little enlarged, with a short tube, a broad shallow cavity, 

 and spreading usually persistent lobes; flesh thin, green, dry and 

 mealy; nutlets 4 or 5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, 

 rounded and ridged on the back, with a low narrow ridge, 7-8 mm. 

 long and about 4 mm. wide. 



A narrow shrub about 1 m. high, with small stems and branches, 

 and slender nearly straight branchlets dark 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 very slender nearly straight 

 purple spines 2-3.5 cm. long. 



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

 Smith and C. S. Sargent, (Xo. 12 type) May 26, 1908, September 7, 

 1909, B. H. Smith, September 17, 1908. 

 3. Crataegus fructuosa n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of a few hairs on the upper surface 

 of the young leaves. Leaves ovate, acuminate, abruptly or grad- 

 ually narrowed and cuneate at the base, finely often doubly serrate, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and divided into three or four pairs 

 of short broad acute lateral lobes; not more than one-third grown 

 when the flowers open about the 20th of May and then thin, } r ellow- 

 green and slightly hairy on the upper side of the midribs, and at 

 maturity thin, yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, 

 pale on the lower surface. 4-4.5 cm. long and about 3.5 cm. wide, 

 with thin midribs and primary veins; petioles slender, slightly wing- 

 margined at the apex, glandular, with persistent glands, 2-2.5 cm- 

 in length; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, rounded at the wide 

 base, more coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed and often 5.5-6 cm. 

 long and broad, with stout broadly winged conspicuously glandular 

 petioles. Flowers 1.6-1.8 cm. in diameter, on slender pedicels, in 

 5-flowered corymbs, with small but conspicuous glandular-serrate 

 bracts and bractlets persistent until the flowers open; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, long, 

 slender, acuminate, finely glandular-serrate above the middle, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers cream color; styles 3 or 4. Fruit 

 ripening hi October, on short stout pedicels, in few-fruited erect and 

 spreading clusters, depressed-globose, rounded at the ends, deep 

 orange-red, lustrous, about 1 cm. long and 1.2 cm. wide; calyx promi- 

 nent, with a short tube, a wide deep cavity pointed in the bottom, 

 and spreading persistent lobes; flesh thin, firm, light yellow; nutlets 

 4 or 5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, rather thicker 



