658 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



laciniately serrate above the middle, with gland-tipped teeth, glabrous 

 on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after an- 

 thesis; stamens 20; anthers pale pink; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening 

 early in September and mostly falling before October, on stout erect 

 pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose, rounded at the apex, trun- 

 cate and concave at base, bright cherry-red, lustrous, about 1 cm. in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, and spread- 

 ing reflexed lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, 

 succulent, dark orange-yellow ; nutlets 2 or 3, full and rovmded at the 

 obtuse ends, prominently ridged on the back, with a broad deeply 

 grooved ridge, penetrated on the inner face by short irregular deep 

 cavities, 5-6 mm. long and al^out 4 mm. wide. 



A tree 3-4 m. high, with a trunk 1-1.5 m. long and 1-1.3 dm. in 

 diameter, covered with thin close gray bark, heavy spreading branches 

 forming a handsome round-topped head, and stout zigzag glal^rous 

 branchlets marked by large oblong pale lenticels, light orange color 

 when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut-red and very lustrous 

 before autiunn and gray tinged with red the following year, and armed 

 with numerous slender or slightly curved purplish or red-brown shining 

 spines 6-8 cm. long. 



Delaware county: Banks of CoUen Brook, Upper Darby, Smith and 

 Sargent (No. 215, type!), September, 1902; B. H. Smith, May and 

 September, 1903, May, 1904. 

 5. Crataegus micrantlia n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to oval or obovate, acute or obtuse and rounded at the 

 apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed to the cuneate entire base, 

 sharply doubly serrate above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and 

 slightly divided above the middle into short acuminate lobes, nearly 

 fully grown when the flowers open about the 20th of May and then mem- 

 branaceous, yellow-green and i)ul)erulous along the midribs above and 

 pale and glabrous below, with the exception of a few sometimes per- 

 sistent hairs in the axils of the primary veins, and at maturity subcori- 

 aceous, dark green, lustrous and glabrous on the upper and pale and 

 dull on the lower surface, 4-5.5 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide, with stout 

 yellow midribs, and prominent veins extending obliquely to the points 

 of the lobes; petioles slentler. grooved on the upper side, narrowly 

 wing-margined below the mitldle, sparingly glandular, 8-14 mm. in 

 diameter. Flowers 8-10 mm. in diameter, on slender elongated glab- 

 rous pedicels, in broad many-flowered compound corymbs, with linear 

 acuminate finely glandular-serrate rose-colored caducous bracts and 

 bractlets; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, elongated, 



