REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 OI 
obscurely toothed on the margins, slightly hairy on the inner 
surface below the middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; 
anthers light rose color; stvles three. Fruit ripening in October, 
on slender pedicels, subglobose to short-oblong, truncate at the 
apex, rounded at the base, maroon, lustrous, marked by numer- 
ous pale dots, I to 1 cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with 
a wide shallow cavity tomentose in the bottom, and spreading 
persistent lobes; flesh thick, dry and mealy; nutlets three, 
rounded at the ends, rather broader at the apex than at the base, 
rounded and ridged on the back with a broad irregularly grooved 
ridge, 6 to 7 mm long and about 4 mm wide. 
An arborescent shrub sometimes 4 m high, with stout stems 
covered with ashy gray bark, becoming dark and scaly near 
their base, ascending branches forming an open irregular head, 
and stout, zigzag branchlets dark orange-green and marked by 
pale lenticels when they first appear, chestnut or orange-brown 
at the end of their first season and dull red-brown the following 
year, and armed with numerous stout straight chestnut-brown 
spines 4.5 to 5 cm long. 
Salamanca, B. H. Slavin (no. 43, type), October 6, 1907; May 
26, 1908. 
Crataegus macera Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 117 (1908). 
Hemlock lake. 
Crataegus diffusa Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 103 (1903). 
Ithaca, Hemlock lake and Rochester. 
Crataegus beckwithae Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. TV. 124 (1903). 
Ithaca, Hemlock lake and Rochester. 
Crataegus xanthophylla Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 48 (1908). 
Buffalo. 
Crataegus livingstoniana Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 116 (1908). 
Hemlock lake. 
Crataegus strigosa Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 51 (1908). 
Buffalo and near Herkimer. 
