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REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 IG3 
Crataegus steubenensis Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 103 (1908). 
Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus irrasa Sargent 
Rhodora V. 116 (1003). 
Keene, Essex co.; also in the Province of Quebec. 
Crataegus perrara n. sp. 
Leaves ovate to broadly oval, acute at the apex, rounded or 
sharply cuneate at the broad base, finely often doubly serrate 
with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into 
four or five pairs of short broad acuminate lobes; nearly fully 
grown when the flowers open at the end of May and then thin, 
yellow-green, roughened above by short white hairs and glab- 
rous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, scabrate on the 
upper surface, pale on the lower surface, more or less contorted, 
4.5 to 5.5 cm long and 3.5 to 4.5 cm wide, with thin midribs and 
primary veins; petioles slender, glabrous, 2 to 3 cm in length; 
leaves on vigorous shoots rounded, truncate or abruptly cuneate 
at the broad base, coarsely serrate, deeply divided into broad 
lateral lobes and often 8 to 9 cm long and 7 to 8 cm wide. 
Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on stout slightly hairy pedicels, in 
compact many-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the 
axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, sparingly 
villose with long white hairs, the lobes slender, acuminate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, slightly hairy on the outer surface, 
glabrous on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens _ 
five to eight; anthers white; styles three to five. Fruit ripening 
the middle of September on drooping red pedicels, short-oblong 
to slightly obovoid, rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, 
marked by small pale dots, 1.5 to 1.8 cm long and I to 1.2 cm in 
diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow cavity, and 
erect often incurved lobes; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; 
nutlets near the apex of the fruit, three to five, broadest and 
rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, slightly 
and irregularly ridged on the back, 6 to 7 mm long and 4 to 5 
mm wide. 
A shrub 5 to 6 m high with ascending branches, dark brown 
scaly bark, and stout zigzag branchlets dark orange-green and 
