390 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



the decurrent blade, and roughened with several pairs of glands. 

 Inflorence a glabrous cyme, 2-6-flowered 3-5 cm. wide ; the stout, 

 nearly or quite glabrous, pedicels erect 1-2 cm. long. Flowers ill- 

 scented, 16-18 mm. wide, saucer-shaped ; calyx glabrous, cup-shaped, 

 the short lobes, 4-5 nmi. long, narrowly triangular from a broad base, 

 entire or sparingly serrulate, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 10, large, 

 the disk broad and sparingly pubescent within, anthers cream colored ; 

 petals broader than long, on an evident claw ; styles 3-5, generally 4. 

 The fruit, borne in simple, few-fruited clusters, is subglobose, usually 

 thicker than long, 11-14 mm. thick, slightly concave at base, dull 

 olive-green, mottled with brick red and russet, capped by the short- 

 stalked calyx, the triangular reflexed entire lobes persistent ; seed 

 usually 4, very thick, deeply grooved on the back ; cavity broad and 

 deep ; flesh green, sour ; ripening early in October and falling soon 

 after the leaves. 



C. L. Gruber and W. W. Ashe, Berks county, Pennsylvania. 



Crat^^gus pausiaca n. sp. A tree 5-8 m. in height with thin dark 

 gray-brown' scaly bark and long horizontal branches forming a globose 

 or flat-topped crown. Twigs rather stout, glabrous, or at first sparingly 

 pubescent, those of the season light brown or russet, becoming ash- 

 gray the second year, armed with slender brown thorns 3-4 cm. long. 

 Leaves thick and firm, glabrous, dark green and lucid above, much 

 paler below, obovate or spatulate in outline, or on vigorous shoots 

 nearly orbicular, 4-6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, rounded or abruptly 

 acute at the apex, cuneate at the entire base, sharply and finely serrate 

 above the middle, very slightly but regularly notched, 5-7 pair of 

 prominent deeply impressed ascending parallel veins ; petiole glabrous, 

 short, .5-2 cm. long, broadly winged above by the decurrent blade- 

 The flowers, which appear early in June in large many-flowered wide- 

 spreading pubescent corymbs, are about 16 mm. wide, and on stout 

 elongated glabrous or appressed pubescent pedicels ; calyx narrowly 

 obconic, the tube glabrate, the ligulate entire lobes appressed pubes- 

 cent, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10-16, large, anthers pink;, 

 styles 2. The fruit, borne in large compound clusters, on elongated 

 drooping pedicels, is oblong or slightly pyriform, crimson, slightly 

 pruinose, capped by the persistent closely-seated reflexed calyx-lobes ; 

 flesh greenish- white, hard and firm ; seed 2-3, large and coarse, 7-8. 

 mm. long. 



The species above proposed has a wide distribution in Pennsylvania 



