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Crataegus asperifolia Sargent 
Rhodora III 31 (1901); N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 105. 64 (1906). 
Near Albany, Little Falls, Buffalo, Coopers Plains; also in New 
England, southern Ontario and the Province of Quebec. 
Crataegus singularis Sargent, N. Y. State Mus) Bap 
122. 106 (1908), with more deeply lobed leaves can not otherwise be 
distinguished from Crataegus asperifolia and probably 
should be referred to that species. 
Crataegus repulsans Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 107 (1908) « 
Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus floridula Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 126 (1908). 
Piseco. 
Crataegus knieskerniana n. sp. 
Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and 
calyx-lobes. Leaves ovate, acuminate, cuneate at the entire base, 
coarsely doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and di- 
vided into five or six pairs of narrow acuminate lateral lobes ; about 
one-third grown when the flowers open the end of May and then 
thin, dark yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs 
and pale bluish green and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, 
yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, paler on 
the lower surface, 6 to 7 cm long and 4.5 to 5 cm wide, with thin 
midribs, and slender primary veins extending obliquely to the points 
of the lobes; pedicels slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 
red in the autumn, 2.5 to 3 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 
ovate, acuminate, rounded, subcordate or occasionally cuneate at the 
broad base, coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed, 8 to 9 cm long and 
wide with glandular petioles. Flowers 1.5 to 1.8 cm in diameter, on 
long slender pedicels, in wide lax mostly 10-13-flowered corymbs, the 
thin much elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves ; 
calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, 
entire, slightly dentate near the middle, glabrous on the outer, vil- 
lose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens. ten; 
anthers rose color; styles three or four. Fruit ripening in October 
on slender drooping pedicels, short-oblong, rounded at the ends, 
scarlet, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, 1.3 to 1.4 cm long, I to 
1.1 cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity 
