610 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



flesh soft, orange or yellow-orange sometimes slightly tinged with red ; 

 nutlets 2 or 3. 



A shrub 2-4 m. high, with numerous flexuous ascending branches 

 forming a narrow oblong head, and slender nearly straight branchlets 

 marked by many small pale lenticels, dull dark red-brown during their 

 first season, becoming pale gray-brown the following year, and armed 

 with slender slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining ultimately 

 gray-brown spines 2-3 cm. long, becoming elongated and forked on the 

 large branches. 



Berks county: Near Kutztown, C. L. Gruber (No. 128, type!), 1902, 

 May and August, 1903, September 1904; North Heidelberg, C. L. 

 Gruber (No. 173), 1903, May and August, 1904. Bucks county: Near 

 Sellersville, C. D. Fretz (No. 174), May and September, 1903. 



The anthers of the Bucks county plant are described by Dr. Fretz as 

 light pink. The leaves are rather less deeply lobed and the fruit is 

 persistent until after all the leaves have fallen. 

 3. Crataegus lata n. sp. 



Leaves broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, short-pointed and acumi- 

 nate at the apex, rounded, truncate, slightly cordate or rarely cuneate 

 at the wide entire often glandular base, sharply doubly serrate above, 

 with slender glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into num- 

 erous short acuminate lobes ; when they unfold tinged with red, slightly 

 hairy above and glabrous below, nearly fully grown when the flowers 

 open about the 20th of May and then very thin, nearly glabrous, and 

 scabrate above, and at maturity membranaceous, light yellow-green 

 and slightly roughened on the upper and pale on the lower surface, 

 4.5-6 cm. long and wide, and often, especially on leading shoots, rather 

 wider than long, with slender yellow midribs, and 6 or 7 pairs of thin 

 primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles 

 very slender, glandular, with minute often persistent glands, 2-3 

 cm. in length. Flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter, on slender elongated 

 glabrous pedicels, in wide open 7-15-flowered corymbs ; calyx-tube nar- 

 rowly obconic, the lobes narrow, gradually contracted into long slender 

 tips, entire or occasionally irregularly glandular-toothed, reflexed after 

 anthesis; stamens 5-8; anthers dark purple; styles 2-4, usually 3, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening 

 at the end of September, on slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, oblong, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, bright 

 scarlet, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm. long and about 7 mm. wide; calyx little 

 enlarged, wdth a narrow shallow cavity and spreading lobes, often 

 entirely deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh yellow, rather juicy; nut- 



