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gined petiole, acute at the apex, finely and sharply glandular 
Serrate, above the middle doubly serrate or with 2-3 pairs of 
shallow lateral lobes, 5-7 pairs of prominent straight parallel 
deeply impressed veins: petiole short, margined, glandless, 
5-15 mm. long. The flowers are in large, 8-15-flowered, 
nearly glabrous, compound corymbs, the lower branches from 
the axils of the upper leaves: pedicels strict, 5-20 mm. long ; 
stamens 10-15, longer than the 3-5 styles: divisions of the 
calyx lanceolate, 5mm. long, sharply glandular serrate or 
entire. Fruit 6-9mm. in diameter, nearly round, greenish, 
orange or rosy-cheeked, flesh thin and firm: seed 3-5, smooth 
or slightly ridged on the back, 4-5 mm. long, 3-4 mm. thick 
dorso-ventrally, the lateral faces concave. 
Crataegus neo-fluvialis is related to Crataegus macracantha 
Lodd., from which it is separated by having narrower acute 
pubescent leaves, and somewhat smaller fruit which lacks 
the bright red so characteristic of Crataegus macracantha 
Lodd. It is frequent along the North Fork of the New River 
in Ashe county, North Carolina, and the adjacent part of 
Virginia. The type material is preserved in my herbarium. 
Crataegus Margaretta n. sp. A small tree 4-5 meters in 
height with rather short horizontal or ascending branches 
forming an open oval crown, or sometimes a large shrub: 
branches gray, flexuous or geniculate, unarmed thornless or 
sparingly beset with short, 2-3cm. long, slender red-brown 
thorns, twig of the season geniculate, red-brown, glabrous, 
marked with numerous, very small gray lenticels: winter- 
buds subglobose, rather large, the few glabrous scales red- 
brown. Leaves glandless, glabrous, or at first with a few 
short hairs on the upper surface, membranaceous, or at length 
firmer, bright green on both sides, the blades broadly rhombic 
to nearly orbicular, or even broader than long, 3-5 cm. long, 
2.5-6cm. wide, with 3-6, generally 5 pairs of prominent 
straight veins, obtusely serrate and with 3-5 pairs of gener- 
ally shallow lobes above the middle, or deeply lobed on vig- 
orous shoots, obtusely or acutely pointed at the apex, entire 
or distantly serrate towards the obtuse or broadly wedge- 
