REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 Il5 
Crataegus misella n. sp. 
Leaves rhombic to obovate, acuminate and long-pointed at the 
apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, finely 
doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and divided 
~ above the middle into three or four pairs of small acuminate spread- 
ing 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 glabrous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, scab- 
rate on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 5 to 6 cm 
long and 3.5 to 4 cm wide, with slender midribs, and thin primary 
veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, 
narrowly wing-margined at the apex, villose on the upper side while 
young, soon glabrous, 2 to 2.5 cm in length; leaves on vigorous | 
shoots narrowed and rounded at the base, coarsely serrate, more 
deeply lobed and sometimes 6 cm long and 5 cm wide. Flowers 1.5 
to 1.7 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in 6—15- 
flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 
leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous or slightly villose, the 
lobes slender, acuminate, glandular-dentate, glabrous on the outer, 
villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens five to 
seven; anthers rose color; styles three or four, surrounded at the 
base by a ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the middle of Septem- 
ber on red pedicels, in erect clusters, short-oblong, rounded at the 
ends, crimson, marked by small pale dots, 1.2 cm long and I cm in 
diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep cavity pointed in the 
bottom, and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, 
firm and bitter; nutlets three or four, rounded at the ends, broader 
at the base than at the apex, rounded and ridged on the back with a 
broad high ridge, usually irregularly depressed on the inner faces, 
6 to 7 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 
ing nearly to the base of the nutlet. 
A shrub 3 to 4 m high, with ascending stems and branches, and 
slender glabrous slightly zigzag branchlets tinged with red and 
marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming chestnut- 
brown and lustrous at the end of their first season and dull gray- 
brown the following year, and armed with stout slightly curved 
chestnut-brown shining spines 4 to 5 cm long. 
On hillsides in clay soil, near Belfast, Allegany county; Baxter 
and Dewing (no. 216, type), September 14, 1904, May 28 and Sep- 
tember 17, 1905. 
