REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 I17 
pointed in the bottom and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh 
thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets three or four, pointed at the 
apex, broader and rounded at the base, rounded and slightly ridged 
on the back, conspicuously depressed on the inner faces, 7 to 8 mm 
long and 4 to 5 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extending nearly to 
the base of the nutlet. 
A broad-topped shrub 2 to 4 m high, with stout stems covered with 
dark gray bark, and slender only slightly zigzag branchlets, light 
orange-brown and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, 
becoming dark chestnut-brown and lustrous at the end of their first 
season and dull brown the following year, and armed with many 
slender straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 
3.5 to 5 cm long. 
In gravelly soil along the top of the cliffs of West Canada creek 
north of East Herkimer; J. V. Haberer (no. 2524, type), May 28 
and October 3, 1912. 
This species differs from the other described species of Anomalae 
in the broad rounded or subcordate base of the leaves on the vigor- 
ous shoots. It is named in memory of Peter D. Knieskern (1798- 
1871), at one time a resident of Oriskany, New York, author of 
“A Catalogue of the Plants found in Oneida County,” “an inde- 
fatigable collector, a keen observer, unsurpassed by few botanists 
in his knowledge of the plants of the region in which he resided.” 
TOMENTOSAE 
Crataegus tomentosa Linnaeus 
Spec. 467 (1753). Sargent, Silva N. Am. IV. tor, t. 183. 
Watervliet, near Elmira, Ithaca, Chapinville, Hemlock lake, Coop- 
ers Plains, Geneseo, Buffalo, Salamanca; also to Missouri and North 
Carolina. 
Crataegus efferata Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus Bul. 122. 128 (1908). 
Hemlock lake. 
Crataegus diversa Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 109 (1908). 
Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus finitima Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 78 (1908). 
Ithaca, near Utica, Belfast, Tuscarora and Niagara Falls. 
