REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 10g 
Crataegus maribella n. sp. 
Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and 
calyx-lobes. Leaves elliptical to obovate or ovate, acute or acumin- 
ate, cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above with 
straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into 
narrow acuminate lobes; about half grown when the flowers open 
the end of May and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened 
above by short white hairs and glaucescent and glabrous below, and 
at maturity thick, yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper 
surface, pale on the lower surface, 6 to 8 cm long and 4 to 4.5 cm 
wide, with stout midribs and thin primary veins extending obliquely 
to the points of the lobes; petioles stout, red in the autumn, 2 to 2.5 
cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, rounded at the wide 
base, 7 to 8 cm long and 6 to 7 cm wide, with stout, winged glandular 
petioles. Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in 
wide lax mostly 10-14-flowered corymbs, the much elongated lower 
peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 
conic, the lobes separated by wide sinuses, gradually narrowed from 
the base, long-acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, slightly villose 
on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens twenty; 
anthers white; styles two to four. Fruit ripening the end of Septem- 
ber on slender drooping pedicels, short-oblong, rounded at the ends, 
crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, 1 to 1.2 cm long and 
g to 10 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow 
cavity pointed in the bottom, and reflexed closely appressed lobes 
often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, orange color, soft 
and mealy, nutlets two to four, usually three, narrowed and rounded 
at the ends, rather broader at the apex than at the base, ridged on the 
back with a high rounded ridge, 7 to 8 mm long and 4.5 mm wide, 
the broad hypostyle extending to just below the middle of the 
nutlet. 
A broad shrub 3 to 4 m high, with erect stems, and stout zigzag 
branchlets light yellow-green when they first appear, becoming light 
chestnut-brown, very lustrous and marked by large dark lenticels at 
the end of their first season and pale gray the following year, and 
armed with numerous stout straight light chestnut-brown shining 
spines 3 to 4.5 cm long. 
Rocky banks on the north side of the Mohawk river below Little 
Falls; J. V. Haberer (no. 2491, type), June 1, 1912; Haberer and 
Dunbar, September 22, 1912. Moss island in the Mohawk river, 
