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scales, and often armed with long, gray or dark purple 
thorns: branches gray, armed with numerous 6—-9cm, long, 
dark red-brown purplish or nearly black, straight or slightly 
curved thorns: twig of the season glabrous brownish-red or 
brown: buds globular, red-brown, glabrous. Leaves broadly 
ovate or nearly orbicular, obtusely pointed at the apex, broad- 
ly cuneate, rounded or even subcordate at base, the blades 
4-6cm. long, 3-5cm. wide with 5-7 pairs of prominent veins, 
acutely glandular serrate, doubly serrate or with 3-5 pairs of 
shallow lobes above, entire at the base, thick, subcoriaceous, 
dark green, glabrous and lucid above, paler and soft or 
roughish pubescent beneath: petiole 5-10 mm. long, margined 
above. ‘The flowers are borne in 4-10—-flowered compound 
tomentose corymbs, the lower branches from the upper leaves: 
fruiting pedicels strict, 2-4cm. long pubescent: styles 3-4; 
stamens 10-15: calyx pubescent, its acute divisions entire or 
glandular laciniate. Fruit glabrous 8-13 mm. in diameter, 
red or yellowish: flesh thick: nutlets 3-4 with shallow fur- 
rows on the back. 
This tree is related to Crataegus tomentosa L. from which 
it is separated by having smaller, broader and more pubescent 
leaves, fewer stamens and fewer-flowered corymbs. Type 
locality : Johnson county; Kansas, where I collected it last 
year. The type material is preserved in my herbarium. 
Crataegus neo-fluviais n. sp. A small tree 3-5 meters in 
height with long horizontal branches forming a flattened 
crown: branches gray, nearly straight or flexuous, armed 
with numerous slender, red-brown purplish or grayish, 
straight or slightly curved, 4-7 cm. long thorns: twig of the 
season red-brown, glabrous, marked with few pale ovate 
lenticels: winter-buds prominent, subglobose, red-brown, 
glabrous. Leaves lucid, dark green and nearly glabrous 
above, scarcely paler and pubescent to glabrate beneath, the 
pubescence soft and abundant on unfolding, becoming scanty 
and roughish with age, the blades elliptic or rhombic ovate 
in outline, 5-10cm. long including the petiole, acute and en- 
_ tire towards the base which gradually narrows into the mar- 
