AsHK : Some New Pennsvlvanian Thokks. 889 



membranaceous, glabrous on the lower surface, at first jnibescent 

 above with short apj^ressed hairs, soon glabrous and smooth, dark 

 green above, much jialer beneath, ovate or oval, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 

 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, sharply and 

 coarsely serrate, 3-4 pairs of short ascending lobes, 4-6 pairs of slen- 

 der ascending primary veins ; petiole slender, 2-3 cm. long, rough- 

 ened with a (ew glands. The flowers, which appear the middle of 

 May, in large, compound, many-flowered glabrous corymbs are about 

 iS mm. wide; calyx obconic, glabrous, the narrow entire ligulate 

 lobes reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 5-8, anthers dark pink. The 

 fruit, which ripens the middle to the last of September, borne in 

 large compound clusters on pendent pedicels, is oblong, about 13 mm. 

 long, dark orange or scarlet or mottled with both colors, and capped 

 by the narrow reflexed lobes, or the lobes are deciduous ; cavity small 

 and shallow ; seed 6-7 mm. long, 3-4. 



The type material, collected by W. W. Ashe, is from Delaware 

 county, Pennsylvania. 



Crat.egus crocata n. nom. C. pioictata var aurca h\\., Hort. 

 Kew. Ed. I, ii, 170 (1789) not C. aurea Marsh. Arb. Am. 89 (1785). 

 The C. xanthocarpos of Medicus (Gesch. 85 (1829)) probably also 

 refers to the y^\\Q\\-{x\x\\.tdi punctata but the specific name xanthocatpos 

 was previously applied by Linnceus to quite a different thorn. 



This is the yellow-fruited /////<:A?Az of the middle Atlantic and Lake 

 States, and is not uncommon throughout Pennsylvania, assuming the 

 same habit as the red-fruited plants. \J\ke punctata it is a 20-stamened 

 species, but the anthers are often nearly white, the fruit golden-yellow, 

 glossy, not, or sparingly punctate, the flesh firm and juicy, greenish- 

 yellow ; seeds usually three, while four are commonly formed \xi punc- 

 tata. The bark is lighter, and the foliage brighter and more lobed at 

 the apex than in punctata. 



CR.AT.tGUS FCETiDA n. sp. A shrub 1-2 m. in height, often with 

 several stems from the same root, and ascending nearly straight 

 branches which begin near the ground. Twigs red-brown, glabrous, 

 armed with very numerous slender long spreading thorns 3-4 cm. 

 Leaves at first with few short appressed hairs on upper surface, soon 

 glabrous, thick, firm, dark green above, much paler beneath, the 

 blades ovate, or broadly ovate, 5-7 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, acute at 

 apex, rounded or acute at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate, 

 often sparingly notched ; petiole flattened, 1-2 cm. long, winged by 



