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surrounded at the base by a ring of pale tomentum. Fruit on slen- 
der drooping pedicels, ripening in October and persistent on 
the branches for several weeks, obovoid, rounded at the apex, 
gradually narrowed at the base, pale red, pruinose, 1.3 to 1.5 cm 
long and 1 cm in diameter; calyx prominent with a long tube, a 
wide deep cavity pointed in the bottom, and spreading lobes 
mostly deciduous from the ripe iruit; flesh hard and dry, tinged 
with red; nutlets four or five, rounded at the ends, rather broader 
at the apex than at the base, rounded and slightly grooved on the 
back, 6 mm long and 3.4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 
ing one-third the length of the nutlet. 
A shrub 3 to 4m high, with stout stems covered near the base 
with gray-brown scaly bark, ascending branches, and_ slender 
nearly straight zigzag branchlets dark orange-brown and marked 
by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming bright chest- 
nut-brown and lustrous at the end of their first season and dull 
gray-brown the following year, and armed with numerous slen- 
der straight dark chestnut-brown shining spines 3 to 5 cm long. 
Hillsides, near Painted Post, Steuben county, common; G. D. 
Cornell (no. 132, type), October 1907; May 26, 1908. 
Crataegus formosa Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 101 (1903). 
Near Rochester, Coopers Plains, Murray, Niagara Falls, Buf- 
falo and Salamanca. 
Crataegus cognata Sargent 
Rhodora V. 58 (1903); N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 41 (1908). 
Dykemans, Castile, Coopers Plains, Tuscarora, Hemlock lake, 
Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Chapin; also southern New England and 
southern Ontario. 
Crataegus rubro-lutea Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 88 (1908). 
Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus casta Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 105. 53 (1906). 
Coopers Plains. 
