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cuneate at the wide base, 4.5 to 5 cm long and broad. Flowers 1.8 
cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in wide mostly 
15-20-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of 
upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, slightly villose at the 
base, the lobes separated by wide sinuses, broad, acuminate, gland- 
ular-serrate, glabrous on the outer surface, villose on the inner sur- 
face, reflexed after anthesis; stamens five to ten; anthers pink; 
styles three or four, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 
white hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September on drooping red 
pedicels, short-oblong, slightly narrowed and rounded at the base, 
crimson, lustrous, marked by occasional pale dots, 1.2 to 1.3 cm long 
and 9 to 10 mm in diameter; calyx prominent with a short tube, a 
very deep narrow cavity pointed in the bottom, and reflexed ap- 
pressed persistent lobes; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets three or 
four, acute at the apex, broader and rounded at the base, ridged on 
the back with a low ridge, occasionally depressed on the inner sur- 
faces, 7 to 7.5 mm long and 4 to 4.5 mm wide, the broad prominent 
hypostyle extending to just below the middle of the nutlet. 
A shrub 3 to 4 m tall, with ascending stems covered at the base 
with scaly bark, ascending branches forming a compact head, and 
stout slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets light orange-green when 
they first appear, bright chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by 
large pale lenticels at the end of their first season and dull gray- 
brown the following year, and armed with numerous slender straight 
chestnut-brown shining spines 7 to 8 cm long. 
Open pastures in moist soil near Ogdensburg. J. Dunbar (no. 
49, type), June 12 and September 28, 1907. 
A slight depression which occurs on the inner faces of some of the 
nutlets indicates the relationship of this very distinct species with 
the Anomalae, but such depressions are not constant and in other 
characters it is more like the Rotundifoliae with which I have placed 
it rather than with the Anomalae. 
Crataegus praecoqua Sargent 
Rhodora V. 167 (1903). 
Grataeeus praecox Sargent. Rhodora III. 27 (not Loudon) (1902). 
Crown Point, Fort Ann; also in northern Illinois, Wisconsin 
and the Province of Quebec. 
