642 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



when the flowers open about the 20th of May and then membranaceous, 

 nearly glabrous, dark yellow-green above, pale below, and at maturity 

 smooth and coriaceous, dull dark bluish-green on the upper, and 

 pale on the lower surface, slightly concave by the infolding of the mar- 

 gins, 4.5-6.5 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, with stout midribs deeply im- 

 pressed on the upper side and usualh^ rose-colored below late in the 

 season, and 3-5 pairs of thin primary veins arching obliquely to the 

 points of the lobes ; petioles slender, more or less wing-margined at the 

 apex, grooved, sparingly hairy early in the spring, glandular, with 

 numerous small dark persistent glands, and 1.5-3 cm. in length. 

 Flowers about 1.8 cm. in diameter, on short stout glabrous pedicels, in 

 narrow compact 3-10- usually 5- or 6-flowerecl compound corymbs; 

 with oblong-obovate, acuminate, very glandular, large and conspicuous 

 bracts and bractlets, often deciduous before the flowers open; calyx- 

 tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, 

 broad, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, usually only above the 

 middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 6-11, commonly 10; anthers 

 large, pale yellow ; styles 4 or 5 ; surrounded at the base by a broad ring 

 of pale hairs. Fruit on short stout reddish pedicels, in few-fruited 

 erect clusters, subglobose, flattened at the ends, concave at the base at 

 the insertion of the stalk, cardinal or dark red sparingly blotched with 

 russet to orange-bronze or reddish-bronze, about 1.5 cm. in diameter; 

 calyx prominent, wdth a broad deep cavity, and wide lobes gradually 

 narrowed into the long slender acuminate glandular-serrate reflexed 

 and closely appressed tips often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh 

 thin, hard and dry, greenish-yellow ; nutlets 4 or 5, broad, obtuse at the 

 narrowed ends, ridged and slightly grooved on the back, about 7 mm. 

 long and 5 mm. wdde. 



An intricately branched shrub 3-4 m. high, with numerous stout 

 stems covered with dark scaly bark, and erect and spreading branches 

 forming a broad round -topped head, and slender only slightly zigzag 

 branchlets, orange-green and marked by numerous large pale lenticels 

 when they first appear, light red-brown and lustrous at the end of their 

 first season, becoming light gray the following year, and armed with 

 many slender or stout nearly straight bright red-brown shining spines 

 2.5-4 cm. in length. 



Berks county: Near Kutztown, C. L. Gruher (No. 14), 1901, May and 

 October, 1903; C. L. Gruher (No. 68), 1902, July, 1902, August and 

 October, 1903; Gruher and Sargent, October, 1904. 



The fruit of Cratcegus haxteri from Rochester when fully ripe is bright 

 orange-red, lustrous and marked by numerous large pale dots; that 



