1922] SARGENT, NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN TREES, X. 181) 



often to below the middle, 1-2 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 broad-ovate, rounded, truncate, or abruptly cuneate at the wide base, 

 often 3-lobed by narrow sinuses extending nearly to the midrib, the 

 terminal lobe often lobulate, coarsely glandular-serrate, conspicuously 

 reticulate-venulose with a vein often extending to the bottom of a sinus, 

 3-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide, their petioles stout, wing-margined, 

 glandular, 1-1.5 cm. in length. Flowers opening late in March, 1.5-2 cm. 

 in diameter, on slender glabrous pedicels, in small 7-10-flowered corymbs 

 closely set on the branches; calyx-tube abruptly enlarged upward, glabrous, 

 the lobes gradually narrowed from a broad base, acuminate, entire, glab- 

 rous, usually deciduous from the fruit; stamens 20; anthers pale yellow; 

 styles 5. Fruit ripening after the middle of September, short-oblong, 

 yellow-green, 7-10 mm. long and 5-8 mm. wide, with soft succulent flesh, 

 the calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity; nutlets 5, acute at 

 ends, only slightly grooved on the back, 3-4 mm. long, the narrow hypo- 

 style extending to the middle. 



A shrub with several stems, 3-3.5 m. tall, or a round-topped tree 6 

 or 7 m. high, with dark gray scaly bark, and slender straight or 

 slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets dark reddish brown when they first 

 appear, becoming lighter-colored at the end of their first season, and ashy 

 gray the following year, and armed with occasional slender nearly straight 

 chestnut brown spines 2-3 cm. in length. 



Texas. Brazoria County, low woods along the Brazos River, near 

 Columbia, B. F. Bush, No. 948, September 30, 1901, No. 2, March 24, 1909 

 E. J. Palmer, No. 5040 (5), March 27, 1914, September 28, 1914 (type), No. 

 5102 (8), April 4, 1914, No. 6688 (8), September 30, 1914. 



Distinct in the subcoriaceous leaves, those on vigorous branchlets often 

 deeply 3-lobed with lobes coarsely glandular serrate to the base, and in 

 its yellow-green fruit. 



Crataegus anamesa (§ Yirides), n. sp. 



Leaves elliptic to broad-ovate or slightly obovate, acute at apex, 

 gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate at base, finely serrate with 

 short broad teeth, and often slightly divided above the middle into broad 

 rounded lobes; when they unfold tinged with red, and villose above and 

 thickly covered below with matted white hairs, not more than half grown 

 when the flowers open and then glabrous or nearly glabrous above, spar- 

 ingly villose and conspicuous below by the broad band of snow-white 

 hairs along the lower part of the midrib, and at maturity subcoriaceous, 

 nearly glabrous, dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on 

 the lower surface, 3-5 cm. long and 3-5 cm. wide; petioles slender, densely 

 villose early in the season, becoming glabrous, 1.5-2 cm. in length; leaves 

 on vigorous shoots broad-ovate, rounded or acute at apex, rounded or 

 broad-cuneate at base, finely serrate, slightly lobed with short broad 

 lobes, up to 6 or 7 cm. long and wide, their petioles stout, slightly wing- 

 margined at apex, often furnished with occasional glands, 2.5-3 cm. in 



