392 Gruber: Crataegus in Berks County, Pa, 



base and in the axils of the leaves; bark on trunk ash-gray: 

 thorns rather few, on twigs often yellowish-tipped, 1.5-3 c^- ^^"S ' 



•fruit scarlet or red, depressed-globose, 12-14 ^^- lo^ig, 13-15 

 mm. thick ; flesh yellow ; seeds 6-7 mm. long ; fruit ripe about 

 the second week in October and falling slightly with and after the 

 leaves during the latter half of October : a small tree, attaining a 



' height of 6 m, and a trunk-circumference of 6.5 dm. 



Type in North Heidelberg Township, Pa-, near Charming 

 Forge, in meadow, on right bank of Tulpehocken Creek. 



Crataegus Triosteum sp. nov. 



Plowers 19-25 mm. wide, cymes 5-20-flowered, the branches 

 of the cyme sometimes racemose; stamens 19-21 ; anthers pink 

 *or rose, often fading lavender-rose ; styles 2-5, often 2, long and 

 :slender ; sepals usually becoming elongated after petals fall : mature 

 leaves often glabrate but usually tomentose on ribs beneath, some- 

 what shining, dark -green or dark yellowish-green above, light- 

 green below, rather firm; petiole sometimes tinged with pale 

 brownish-olive at base, 1-2,5 c^- long; blade 5-7.5 cm. long, 

 2-4, or on ends of leading shoots, 5 cm. wide, broadly oblanceo- 

 late, spatulate, narrowly obovate, or on leading shoots obovate ; 

 base cuneate, on leading shoots often abruptly so ; apex abruptly 

 acute or subacuminate, sometimes obtuse ; usually a prominent 

 tooth at end of each rib, frequently with 4-5 pairs of veiy short 

 lobes above middle, the lobes often rather conspicuous on vigorous 

 shoots; leaves falling about the middle or latter half of October, 

 those on fruiting branchlets early in October; glands often clus- 

 tered on stipules : young twigs sparingly to moderately loosely 

 pilose ; mature twigs glabrate or slightly pubescent at base; bark 

 on trunk dark ash-gray, scales weak: thorns moderately numer- 

 ous, 3-7 cm. long, usually slightly reflexed and curved : fruit in 

 loose, long-branched clusters, globose to oblong-globose, 13-16 

 mm, long and thick ; when fully ripe, orange-cardinal or cardinal, 

 apex sometimes rich dark-green, usually much punctate with 

 russet, generally, rounded ; sepals usually prominent and long, 

 spreading-recurved to Ascending, often waving, remaining green for 

 a long time ; flesh yellow ; seeds 3-5, 8-9 mm. long, placed sub- 

 centrally ; fruit ripe about the first or second week in October and 

 falling with and after the leaves ; trees in dry soil usually have 

 redder and smaller fruit with less conspicuous sepals : a sturdy, 

 small tree, trunk often well defined nearly to the top, with numer- 

 ous ascending branches or the upper ones horizontal, attaining a 

 a height of 3-6 m. and a trunk-circumference of 4-6 dm. 

 On banks of streams and also on high gravelly soil. 



Moselem 



Ki^TZTOWN, Pennsylvania. 



