620 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



at the end of September, on stout erect pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, 

 short-oblong to subglobose, dark red, covered with a glaucous bloom, 

 about 1 cm. in diameter; calyx enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, 

 and erect more or less incurved or spreading lobes often deciduous from 

 the ripe fruit; flesh yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, gradually 

 narrowed and acute or rounded at the ends, ridged on the back with a 

 low deeply grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and about 4 mm. wide. 



An arborescent shrub spreading into broad clumps, 4-5 m. high, 

 with numerous stout erect stems forming a broad head, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets marked by many small oblong pale lenticels, 

 bright reddish-brown or green tinged with red when they first appear, 

 bright reddish-brown and very lustrous during their first winter, 

 becoming dull gray-brown the following year, and armed with slender 

 straight or slightly curved purplish shining spines 3-6 cm. in length. 



Bucks county: Near a stream in the meadow at Pleasant Spring 

 bridge, Hilltop near Sellersville, Fretz and Sargent (No. 110, tj^pe!), 

 September, 1899; C. D. Fretz, May, 1900. 



13- Crataegus miniata Ashe. 



Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc, Vol. XX, p. .51, 1904. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at the apex, con- 

 cave-cuneate or rounded at the entire or glandular base, sharply doubly 

 serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the 

 middle into 4 or 5 pairs of spreading acuminate lobes, more than half- 

 grown when the flowers open from the 10th to the middle of May, and 

 then covered above with short white hairs and glabrous below, and at 

 maturity membranaceous, dark green and scabrate on the upper and 

 pale on the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long and 4-4.5 cm. wide, with slender 

 midribs, and thin veins arching obliquely to the points of the lobes, 

 turning yellow or greenish-yellow before falling early in October; 

 petioles slender, grooved on the upper side, slightly wing-margined at 

 the apex, at first glandular, with minute dark red stipitate caducous 

 glands, 2.5-3 cm. in length. Floivers 2 cm. in diameter, on slender 

 glabrous pedicels, in compact 3-12- mostly 6-10-flowered corymbs; 

 calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire or 

 occasionally sparingly toothed, glabrous or puberulous near the apex, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 8-10; anthers light rose color; styles 

 2-4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of hoary tomentum. 

 Fruit ripening early in September and soon falling, or rarely persistent 

 ' and shrivelling on the branches, on slender elongated pedicels, in droop- 

 ing clusters, oblong to subglobose or ovate-oblong, mostly concave at 

 the ends, scarlet more or less blotched with nisset, slightly glaucous, 



