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the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens twenty; anthers 
rose color; styles three to five. Fruit ripening the end of Septem- 
ber on drooping pedicels, subglobose, truncate at the ends, slightly 
angled, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, 1.4 to 1.5 cm 
in diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow cavity, and 
spreading and erect lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; 
flesh orange color, of good flavor; nutlets three to five, rounded at 
the ends, broader at the base than at the apex, ridged on the back 
with a wide grooved ridge, slightly and irregularly depressed on the 
inner faces, 7 to 8 mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide, the prominent 
hypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 
An arborescent shrub or small tree sometimes 7 m high, with a 
stem 15 cm in diameter at the base, bark covered with small dark 
gray-brown scales, stout pale gray branches, and slender slightly 
zigzag branchlets light orange-color when they first appear, becom- 
ing light chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked by numerous pale 
lenticels at the end of their first season, and armed with stout 
straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 3.5 to 4.5 
cm long. 
Top of Falls hill south of the Mohawk at Little Falls, J. V. Ha- 
berer (no. 2464, type), June 12, 1912; Haberer, Dunbar and Sar- 
gent, September 27, 1912. 
Crataegus dunbarii Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 126 (1903); N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 
76 (1908). 
Rochester, Hemlock lake, Adams Basin and Buffalo. 
Crataegus inopinata Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122, 108 (1908). 
Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus scabrida Sargent 
Rhodora III. 29 (1901) ; Silva N. Am. XIII. 133, t. 677; N. Y State Mus. 
Bul. 122. 76 (1908). 
Albany, Little Falls, New Hartford, Mohawk, near Utica, Hem- 
lock lake, Belfast; also in New England, the Province of Quebec 
and southern Ontario. 
Crataegus affinis Sargent 
Ontario Nat. Sci. Bul. 4. 71 (1908). 
Piseco, Hamilton co.; also near Toronto, Ontario. 
