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lets marked by numerous small dark lenticels, dark orange color and 

 lustrous when they first appear, becoming dark orange-brown during 

 their first winter and light gray-brown the following year, and armed 

 with few slender slightly curved light red-brown spines 2-2.5 cm. in 

 length. 



Bucks county: Borders of rich woods, near Sellersville, C. D. Fretz 

 (No. 178, type!), May and September, 1903. 

 15. Crataegus insolita n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, rounded or occasionally cuneate at the broad 

 entire base, coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight gland-tipped 

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

 less than half-grown when the flowers open about the middle of May 

 and then membranaceous, light yellow-green and covered above with 

 short white hairs, and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thin 

 but firm in texture, glabrous, dark yellow-green on the upper and pale 

 on the lower surface, 6-8 cm. long and .5-6 cm. wide, with stout yellow 

 midribs, and thiii primary veins extending very ol^licjuely to the points 

 of the lobes; petioles stout, slightly grooved on the upper side, spar- 

 ingly villose at first, soon glabrous, slightly glandular, with minute 

 caducous glands, and .3-4 cm. long; stipules linear-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, glandular, with minute stipitate glands, fading pink, caducous; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots becoming subcoriaceous, full and roimded or 

 occasionally slightly cuneate at the base, more coarsely serrate and 

 often 8-9 cm. wide and long, with stout petioles wing-margined at the 

 apex and .3-4 cm. inlength. i^/ou'ers about 1-2 cm. in diameter, on slender 

 glabrous pedicels, in broad mostly 10-12-flowered corymbs, with oblong- 

 obovate acuminate coarsely glandular-serrate bracts and bractlets 

 mostly persistent imtil after the flowers open; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, reddish, the lobes linear, long-acuminate, entire or occasion- 

 ally sparingly serrate, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10 or less, 

 visually 5-8; anthers dark rose color; styles 2-4, surrounded at the 

 base by a narrow ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit ripening at the end 

 of September, on long stout pedicels, in drooping few-fruited clusters, 

 broad ovate, bright cherry red, marked by many large dark dots, 1.3-1.5 

 cm. long and 1.2-1.3 cm. wide; calyx little enlarged, with a narrow 

 deep cavity, and elongated mostly entire closely appressed lobes gradu- 

 ally narrowed from broad bases ; flesh thick, pale yellow, and somewhat 

 juicy; nutlets usually 3 or 4, broad and rounded at the base, gradually 

 narrowed to the rounded apex, prominently ridged on the back, with a 

 high narrow ridge, 7-8 cm. long and about 5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 3-5 m. high, often forming thickets, with stout ascending 



