1905.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 643 



of Cratcegus jcctida (No. 14) is described by Mr. Gruber as ''dull mottled 

 red-scarlet or bronze, ground color apparently a dark red-scarlet or 

 orange-red usually much blotched with dark olive-green, often blotched, 

 tinged or shaded with olive, light olive-green or dark red, sometimes 

 with reddish-orange, rose or russet, punctate with greenish-orange or 

 russet." In No. 68, which is evidently the same species, the fruit is 

 described by him as "red-bronze to orange-bronze or light reddish- 

 bronze, and not so much mottled or blotched, often very little blotched 

 or not at all." Except in these slight variations in the color of the 

 fruit I can find no differences between Cratcegus haxteri and Cratcegus 

 fcetida, which is thus widely distributed from western Massachusetts 

 to western New York and eastern Pennsylvania. 

 8. Crataegus apposita Sargent. 



Bot. Gazette, XXXV, 103 (The Genus Crataegus in New Castle County, Dela- 

 ware) (1903). 



Leaves oblong to oval, acute, acimiinate or rarely round at the apex, 

 cuneate at the base, glandular-serrate, above the middle usually doubly 

 with spreading teeth, below, with small incurved teeth, or often entire 

 near the base, slightly and irregularly lobed toward the apex, with 

 short acute lobes ; as they unfold coated above with soft pale deciduous 

 hairs, when the flowers open the middle of May more than half -grown 

 and then membranaceous and nearly glabrous, and at maturity thin 

 but firm in texture, dark yellow-green on the upper, paler on the lower 

 surface, 3.5-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide, with slender 2-4 thin remote 

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

 slender, wing-margined above, at first villose, soon glabrous, glandular, 

 with small scattered dark red glands, often red toward the base, 1.5-2 

 cm. long; stipules oblong-obovate to linear, conspicuously glandular- 

 serrate, caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots often ovate, acute, 

 broadly cuneate and abruptly narrowed at the base into the wide 

 wing of the short stout petiole, coarsely serrate, deeply 3-5-lobed, 

 5-6 cm. long and 4—6 cm. wide, with foliaceous limate coarsely glandu- 

 lar-serrate stipules 7-10 mm. long. Flowers 1.5 cm. in diameter, on 

 slender pedicels, in few usually 4-7-flowered corymbs, with oblong- 

 obovate to linear conspicuously glandular-serrate bracts and bractlets, 

 turning red before falling, caducous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 

 glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acute glandu- 

 lar-serrate, slight!}^ hairy on the inner face, reflexed after anthesis; 

 stamens 10; anthers pale yellow; styles usually 3. Fruit ripening 

 the middle of October, in few-frviited drooping clusters, oblong-obovate, 

 full and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed below into the stout 



