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1910; West Feliciana Parish, near Bayou Sara, C, S, Sargent, April 12, 1916; Cata- 

 houla Parish, Urania, E. J. Palmer, May 12, 1915 (No. 7580); Lincoln Parish, Rus- 

 ton, /?. S. Cochs, July, 1909 and February 4, 1911; RicliIanJ Parish, Alto, /?. S. 

 Cocks, April 18, 1910; Winn Parish, Winnfield, C. S, Sargent, April C and November 

 9, 1913; St. Landry Parish, 10 miles west of Opelousas, C. S. Sargent, April 4, 1913; 

 Natchitoches Parisli, Natchitoches and Chopin, *E. J. Palmer, April 16 and March 

 22, 1915 (Nos. 7240 and 7065); Calcasieu Parish, Lake Charles, C, S, Sargent, March 

 25, 1911, R. S. Cocks, :\Iarch 27, 1911. 



Texas. Jefferson County, Beaumont, E. J, Palmer, September 12, 1917 (No. 

 12728); Fletcher, Hardin County, E. /. Palmer, April 25, 1917 (No. 9558). 



Arkansas. Hempstead County, McNab, E. J. Palmer, October 19, 1915 (No. 

 8972); Saline County, Benton, E, J. Palmer, SE^ptember 2, 1915 (No. 8441). 



The most southern stations from which I have seen Ilamamelis virginiana 

 are in the neighborhood of Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, near Reyn- 

 olds, Taylor County, and banks of the Savannah River near Augusta, Rich- 

 mond County, Georgia, and McNab, Hempstead County, southern Ar- 

 kansas. 



Crataegus 



CRUS-GALLI 



Crataegus montivaga, n. sp. 



Leaves obovate to oval, rhombic or suborbicular, rounded, acute or 

 acuminate or abruptly short-pointed at apex, conoave-cuneate at base, 

 sharply serrate to below the middle with straight acuminate glandular 

 teelh, dark green, lustrous and scabrate above, pale yellow-green below, 

 2.5-3 cm. long, 1.8-2.5 cm. wide, with a thin midrib and prominent primary 

 veins; petioles slender, wing-margined at apex, villose early in the spring, 

 becoming glabrous, about 6 mm. in length. Flowers opening late in April 

 1.2 cm. in diameter, on villose pedicels 6-12 mm. long, in comj^act mostly 

 7-10-flowercd villose corymbs, their bracts and bractlets linear-obovate, 

 glandular-serrate; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous or with occasional 

 hairs near the base, the lobes gradually narrowed from a wide base, glandu- 

 lar-serrate, sometimes laciniate near the acuminate apex, glabrous on the 

 outer surface, villose on the inner surface; stamens 10-15, usually 10; an- 

 thers pink; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening late in September or early in 

 October, on erect nearly glabrous or villose pedicels, short-o})long to ellip- 

 soidal, orange-red, about 8 mm, long, the calyx much enlarged; flesh thin, 

 dry and mealy, yellow-green; nutlets 2 or 3, rounded at apex, ridged on the 

 back with a low broad rounded ridge, about 6 mm. long. 



A bushy tree rarely more than 4 or 5 m. high, with a short trunk 25-30 



cm. in diameter, erect and spreading branches, and slender nearly straight 



branchlets orange-brown and covered with long scattered pale hairs when 



they first appear, dull red-brown and glabrous at the end of their first season 

 and gray the following year. 



Western Texas. Rocky banks of streams: Kendall County, near Boerne, May 

 15, 1910, B. Mackenscn, June 21 and September 30, 1913, G. A, Schattenherg, April 

 27, 1914, G, Z>. Gray, May 19, 191C, £. J. Palmer (rocky banks of Spring Creek, No. 

 9820), September 27, 1916, E. J, Palmer (No. 108828, type), April G, 1917, E, /. 



