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In an upland field of the Page Whitaker farm, Richland County, 

 southeastern Illinois, Robert Ridgway, October 7, 1923 (No. 2057, type 

 for fruit), June 2, 1924 (No. 2105, type for flowers). Small trees in an 

 adjoining field are believed by Dr. Ridgway to be seedlings from this tree 

 (Nos. 2057 and 2105) but of these I have seen no specimen. 



In habit, spreading branches, stout large branchlets and large leaves 

 it resembles a Molles species, while in the shape of the leaves, the size and 

 color of the soft fruit, the two nutlets and the nature of their lower sur- 

 face it resembles a Macracanthae species. 



Crataegus coccinioides Ashe, a species of the Dilatatae, grows in the 

 neighborhood of St. Louis and is common near Allenton and Pacific, 

 Missouri. If C. speciosa Sargent (in Trees and Shrubs, i. 65 [1903] ) is 

 considered a synonym of Ashe's species, as the examination of a large 

 amount of material recently collected by Palmer seems to justify, the 

 range of this species must be extended to southwestern Missouri, Galena, 

 Cherokee County, Kansas, and to the neighborhood of Farmington, 

 Washington County, Arkansas. Ashe includes southern Illinois in the 

 range of his species but I have seen no specimen from east of the Mississippi 

 River. 



Crataegus cupulifera Sargent (in Rochester Acad. Sci. iv. 129 [1903]) 

 was referred to the Macracanthae by me in the New York State Bull. 

 167, 119 (1913) but it really belongs to the Rotundifoliae group, and C. 

 simulans Sargent (in New York State Bull. cxxn. 125 [1908]) which was 

 later referred by me to C. cupulifera as a synonym, belongs as originally 

 described to the Anomalae. 



Crataegus Wheeleri, an Intricatae species from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

 was published by Sargent in 1907 (in Rep. Geolog. Surv. Michigan, 1906, 

 552) and is found to be a homonym, a C. Wheeleri from Colorado which 

 probably belongs to C. Douglasii having been published in 1902 by Nelson 

 (in Bot. Gaz. xxxiv. 369). There is not a specimen of Nelson's plant 

 in the herbarium of the Arboretum. Crataegus diversifolia, with broad 

 or narrow ovate leaves of the fruiting branches becoming sometimes 

 distinctly 3-lobed on vigorous sterile shoots, may be adopted as the name 

 of C. Wheeleri of Sargent. 



Crataegus padifolia var. incarnata, n. var. 



Leaves ovate, acute and short-pointed at the apex, rounded or abruptly 

 narrowed at the base, acutely and frequently doubly serrate, and often 

 slightly divided into short acute lateral lobes, glabrous with the exception 

 of a few caducous hairs on the upper side of the midrib early in the season, 

 thin, dark green above, slightly paler below, 3-5.5 cm. long and 3-5 cm. 

 wide, with a slender midrib deeply impressed on the upper side, and usually 

 5 or 6 pairs of slender primary veins; petioles slender, more or less glandu- 

 lar, with glands generally persistent during the season, usually about 1.5 



