390 Gruber: Crataegus in Berks County, Pa. 



or claret : leaves obovate to lance-obovate, frequently cut-serrate 



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near apex; fruit red-maroon, globose, 1 1-15 mm. long and thick. 



Crataegus crocata Ashe Ann. Carnegie Museum i : 389. 1902 



Similar to C. punctata and found growing with it ; but the 



anthers frequently are whitish on the sides and the fruit is de- 



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presed-globose and pale yellow, 



^ Crataegus punctata mutabilis van nov. 



Flowers 16-21 mm. wide, cymes 3-15-flowered, stamens 18- 

 20, anthers dark purplish-red, styles 3-5 : mature leaves spar- 

 ingly villous-pubescent to glabrate on surface; petiole 1-2.5 ^'^■ 

 long; blade 3-6.5 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, obovate, lance-obo- 

 vate, or spatulate, cuneate or narrowly cuneate at base, acute, 

 obtuse, or rounded at apex, entire at base, sometimes nearly to 

 middle, sometimes with a few short lobes near apex, especially 

 on leading shoots, turning pale yellow, mottled with russet, in 

 autumn, and falling mostly about the middle of October : mature 

 twigs villous or glabrate along middle ; bark on trunk gray to dark- 

 gray : thorns rather few on branches, 2-4. 5 or sometimes 6 or 7 

 cm. long : fruit red-bronze on one cheek and light to scarlet-bronze 

 on the other or entirely some shade of light bronze, oblong-globose 

 to globose, 13-16 mm. long, 12-15 ^^' thick; flesh yellow- 

 ish; seeds 3-4, 7-8 mm. long, back sometimes without grooves ; 

 fruit ripe about the first or second week in October and falling 

 with and after the leaves during the latter half of October and the 

 beginning of November: a small tree attaining a height of 6 m. 

 and a trunk-circumference of 8 dm. 



Type two and one-half miles northwest of Kutztown, Pa., in 



wet ground, near left bank of Sacony Creek. 



^ Crataegus Cydonia sp. nov. 



Flowers 19-23 mm. wide, cymes 5-1 5 -flowered, stamens 18- 

 20; anthers rose, becoming purplish-rose ; styles 2-5, commonly 

 3 : mature leaves varying from dark-green to yellowish-green on 

 the same tree; petiole 1-1.75 cm. long; blade 3-5 cm. long, 

 1.75-3.25 cm. wide, at ends of leading shoots sometimes 6-6.5 

 cm. long and 4-4.5 cm. wide, obovate or , oval -obovate, base 

 cuneate, apex usually acute, each rib usually ending in a very 

 short, acute lobe tipped by a narrow tooth, the lobes mostly on 

 the apical third ; leaves turning dull-, russet-, or yellowish-bronze 

 or yellow and falling late in October : mature twigs glabrate or 

 sparingly pubescent ; bark on trunk dark ash-gray to black-gray : 

 thorns rather abundant, 3-5 or 6.5 cm. long, compound thorns 

 often far out on old branches : fruit solitary or in loose, often 



