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and rounded at the base, 5.5-6 mm long and 4-4.5 mm wide, the 

 narrow liypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous wide spreading branches 

 and slender zigzag branchlets dark orange green and marked by 

 pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming pale orange brown 

 in their first season and light brown the following year, and armed 

 with numerous stout straight or slightly curved purple spines 

 3- 5-4- 5 ^^""i long. 



Roadsides near Rossie, St Lawrence co. C. H. Peck ( # 12 

 Re), June 12 and September 29, 1909. 



Crataegus brainerdi Sarg. 



Rocky places. Rossie. June. The plant reported under this 

 name in Bulletin 75, page 12, was later decided by Professor Sargent 

 to be a distinct species and was described and reported under the 

 name Crataegus m e 1 1 i t a Sarg. 



Crataegus longipedunculata Sarg. 

 Xear Canandaigua. June and October. Miss E. C. Webster. 



Crataegus nemorosa n. sp. Sarg. 



(Mcdioximae) 



Glabrous. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly cune- 

 ate at the base, sharply often doubly serrate with straight glandular 

 teeth and deeply divided into 3 or 4 pairs of slender acuminate 

 lobes usually pointing toward the apex of the leaf ; about one-half 

 grown when the flowers open at the end of May or early in June 

 and then very thin and yellow green, and at maturity thin, blue 

 green and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 

 4.5-5 cm long and 3-3.5 cm wide', with thin midribs and primary 

 veins, turning deep vinous red in the autumn on the upper side and 

 remaining pale below ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at 

 the apex, glandular, with minute persistent glands, 1.5-2 cm in 

 length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, acute, long-pointed 

 at the apex, rounded or truncate at the entire base, coarsely ser- 

 rate, deeply lobed and often S-9 cm long and broad. Flowers 

 1. 5-1. 8 cm in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in small 5-8- 

 flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed 

 from a wide base, short, acuminate, entire or furnished near the 



