REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I912 '/'] 



Crataegus eastmaniana n. sp. 



Glabrous. Leaves obovate and cuneate at the base to ovate and 

 rounded at the base, sharply serrate and shghtly divided above the 

 middle into small acuminate lobes ; nearly fully grown when the 

 flowers open during the first week of June and then thin, yellow- 

 green above and glaucescent below, and at maturity thin, dark blue- 

 green and lustrous on the upper surface and paler on the lower 

 surface, 4.5 to 5 cm long and 3 to 4 cm wide, with prominent mid- 

 ribs and primary veins ; turning orange and red in October ; petioles 

 slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 1.5-2.5 cm in length; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, rounded or cuneate at the 

 base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, and often 6 to 

 7 cm long and 5 to 6 cm wide. Flowers 2.5 cm in diameter on 

 slender pedicels, in small compact five- to ten-flowered corymbs, the 

 lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, the lobes separated by wide sinuses, slender, acuminate, 

 nearly entire, occasionally glandular-serrate near the middle, reflexed 

 after anthesis ; stamens twenty ; anthers dark rose color, soon fading 

 to light green ; styles three to five, surrounded at the base by a 

 narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening early in October on 

 slender drooping pedicels, short-oblong to slightly obovoid, dark 

 crimson, slightly pruinose, luarked by numerous small pale dots, 

 about 1.5 cm long and 1.2 cm in diameter ; calyx little enlarged, with 

 a deep narrow cavity pointed and densely tomentose in the bottom, 

 and spreading usually incurved persistent lobes ; flesh thin, dry and 

 mealy ; nutlets three to five, rounded at the base, narrowed and 

 rounded at the apex, ridged on the back with a broad high ridge, 

 9 to 10 mm long and 5 to 6 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 

 ing nearly to the middle of the nutlet. 



An arborescent shrub 5 to 7 m high, with a short main stem some- 

 times 3 cm in diameter, smooth pale gray branches, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets dark yellow-green when they first ap- 

 pear, light orange-brown at the end of their first season, and gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with numerous slender 

 straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 2.^ to 

 3.5 cm long. 



Low rich ground on the border of Durand-Eastman park, Roch- 

 ester, Henry T. Brown (no. i, type), October 6, 1908; June 7, 1909. 



Crataegus dewingii Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 34 (1908). 

 Buffalo, Belfast. 



