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at the base, varying greatly in size even on the same twig, 
3-6 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, finely but sharply serrate to the 
base, doubly serrate or with 3-5 pairs of shallow lobes above, 
the serratures acutely gland-tipped, 4-6 pairs of prominent 
veins: petiole 1-2cm. long, generally short and less than 
one-third the length of the blade, channeled, narrowly mar- 
gined, at least above, and with a few glands near the base of 
the leaf. The flowers, which appear when the leaves are 
nearly grown in few 4—9-flowered nearly simple corymbs, are 
white 14-17 mm. wide and borne on slender pedicels: calyx 
‘glabrous, its divisions lanceolate, short, 3-5 mm. long, per- 
sistent and coloring with the frttit: styles 3-4: stamens 5-10, 
generally 5, the base of the very stout filaments persistent 
and coloring with the fruit. The fruit 13-18mm. in diam- 
eter, borne in small clusters, is somewhat longer than thick, 
a uniform dark but bright red when ripe, glabrous and some- 
times sparingly glaucous, flesh thick and mealy, pedicels 
strict and very slender generally falling with the fruit, which 
falls from the tree during the latter half of September: nut- 
lets 3-5, deeply grooved and ridged on the back, 5-7 mm. 
long, 5mm. thick dorso-ventrally, the lateral faces plane. 
Crataegus macrosperma is found in northern Alabama and 
northwestern Georgia and the adjacent portions of Tenn- 
essee, growing frequently along rocky, especially cherty 
ridges in open woods, or often on exposed and thin-soiled 
almost untimbered rocks. It is frequent on Lookout Moun- 
tain, Tenn., which is the type locality, and where it was 
first collected by me in 1897, and on the surrounding moun- 
tains. ‘This species is related to Crataegus coccinea L., or 
more closely to C. selvicola Bead,, from which it is separated 
by having shorter stouter spines, smaller leaves, and much 
larger fruit. The type material is preserved in my herba- 
rium. 
Crataegus coccinioides n. sp. A small tree 4-6 meters in 
height with numerous spreading or ascending branches form- 
ing a round or oval crown: the gray bark of the trunk broken 
into small scales, often armed with long simple or compound 
