646 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



yellow-green and slightly hairy above along the midribs and pale and 

 glabrous below, and at maturity thin, dark yellow-green on the upper, 

 pale on the lower surface, 6-7 cm. long and 4.5-5.5 cm. wide, with 

 slender light yellow midribs, and thin primary veins arching obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, grooved on the upper side, 

 narrowly wing-margined sometimes to the middle, glandular, \\ith 

 minute dark persistent glands and 2-3 cm. long; stipules oblong- 

 obovate to linear, acuminate, glandular, often deciduous before the 

 flowers open. Flowers 2-2.3 cm. in diameter, on long slender glabrous 

 pedicels, in 4-8-flowered corymbs, with large obovate to linear 

 glandular bracts and bractlets usually persistent until the flowers 

 open; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from 

 wide bases, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate above the middle, 

 glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner surface, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens 8-13, usually 10; anthers pink or light rose 

 color; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale 

 hairs. Fruit ripening early in October and persistent until after the 

 fall of the leaves, on slender pedicels, in spreading few-fruited clusters, 

 subglobose to short oblong, rounded at the ends, greenish-bronze to 

 pale red -bronze color, marked by small pale dots, 1.2-1.4 cm. in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a short tube, a deep narrow cavity, 

 and spreading appressed lobes, their tips mostly deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thin, greenish-yellow, hard and dry; nutlets usually 3, 

 rounded at the ends, ridged on the broad back, with a prominent deeply 

 grooved ridge, 8-9 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m. high, with slender ascending stems and branches 

 covered with dark almost black bark, and slender nearly straight 

 branchlets marked by large oblong pale lenticels, orange or reddish- 

 brown when they first appear, dull reddish-brown during their first 

 winter and darker the following year, and armed with slender nearly 

 straight purplish spines 3-5 cm. long. 



Berks county: Open woods. West Leesport, C. L. Gruber (No. 88, 

 type, Nos. 86 and 112), 1902, May and October, 1904; North Heidel- 

 berg, C. L. Gruher (No. 150), with larger leaves and fruit; near Kutz- 

 town, C. L. Gruher (No. 147), 1902, September, 1903, April, 1904. 

 Delaware county: Davis Hill, Chadsford, B. H. Smith (No. 244), May, 

 1904; Smith and Sargent, September, 1904. 



No. 198 of B. H. Smith, from Preston Run Barrens (Cratcegus definita 

 Sarg.), was referred to Cratcegus iriducta by Mr. Ashe (in letter to B. H. 

 Smith, November, 1901), and is probably his only authority for this 

 species in Delaware county (see his description of the species), as 

 CraUegus inducta was not found at Chadsford until the spring of 1904. 



