632 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



N. Am., XIII, 134; Man. 460), although those gathered by Mr. Gruber 



near Kutztown have slightly villose corymbs and thus approach the 



typical Cratcegus coccinea L. with its extremely villose corymbs, calyx 



and young branchlets. 



2. Crataegus dodgei Ashe. 



Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. 8oc., Vol. XIX, p. 26, 1903. 

 Cratcegus gravesii Sargent, Rli.odora, V, 159 (June, 1903). 

 Cratcegus faUcns Gruber, Proc. Berks County Nat. Sci. Club, I, 19 (Cratiegus 

 in Berks County, II) (October, 1903). 



Leaves ovate to obovate, acute or rounded at the apex, narrowed from 

 below the middle to the concave-cuneate or rarely rounded entire base, 

 and slightly divided above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of broad acute 

 lobes; when they unfold tinged with red and coated alcove with silky 

 white hairs, nearly fully grown when the flowers open about the 20th 

 of May and then membranaceous, light green and slightly hairy above, 

 with scattered pale hairs, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, 

 glabrous, dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, pale yellow- 

 green on the lower surface, usually 3.5-4 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, 

 wdth slender yellow midribs, and 3 or 4 pairs of slender primary veins 

 extending obliquely to the points of the lobes, or occasionally 3-nerved ; 

 petioles slender, more or less wing-margined at the apex, slightly hairy 

 and often glandular early in the season, 1-1.4 cm. in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots often broadly ovate, rounded, slightly cordate or 

 broadly cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate and divided into numerous 

 short acute lateral lobes, 5-6 cm. long and nearly as wide, with thick 

 rose-colored midribs and stout winged petioles. Flowers 1.5-1.6 cm. 

 in diameter, on slender slightly hairy or glabrous pedicels, in com- 

 pact 5-16- mostly 10-12-flowered compound corymbs, with linear and 

 acuminate to lanceolate, glandular, pink bracts and bractlets; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, light green, the lobes gradually narrowed from 

 broad bases, linear, acuminate, tipped with bright red glands, finely 

 glandular-serrate usually only above the middle, reflexed after an thesis; 

 stamens 4-10, usually 7 or 8; anthers small, pale yellow; styles 2 or 3, 

 rarely 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit in erect few-fruited compact clusters, globose or depressed- 

 globose, dark orange-red, marked by numerous large dark dots, 7-11 

 usually about 8 mm. in diameter; calyx small with a broad shallow 

 cavity, the lobes usually deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh pale 

 yellow-green, dry and mealy; nutlets 2 or 3, full and rounded at the 

 ends, prominently ridged on the broad rounded back, about 6 mm. long 

 and 4-5 mm. wide. 



A shrub with several stout stems and a broad round-topped or flat- 



