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Crataegus eatoniana Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 105. 51 (1906). 

 Menands near Albany. 



Crataegus barbara Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 33 (1908). 

 Brighton near Rochester. 



Crataegus pausiaca Ashe 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus. i. 390 (1902). Sargent, Trees and Shrubs i. 105. t. S3- 

 Chapin ; also in eastern Pennsylvania. 



Crataegus desueta Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 84 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains and Glean. 



Crataegus brownietta n. sp. 



Leaves obovate to ovate, acute, cuneate or rounded at the base, 

 finely and often doubly serrate with straight glandular teeth, and 

 slightly divided above the middle into short acuminate spreading 

 lobes ; nearl}' fully grown when the flowers open in the last week of 

 May and then yellow-green, roughened above by short white hairs 

 and sparingly villose on the midribs and veins below, and at matur- 

 ity thin, dark }ellow-green and glabrous on the upper surface, still 

 slightly villose on the lower surface, 4 to 4.5 cm long and 2.5 to 3 

 cm wide, with slender midribs aiid four or five pairs of thin primary 

 veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, sparingly 

 villose early in the season, becoming glabrous, and more or less 

 tinged with red in the autumn, i to 1.5 cm in length ; leaves on vigor- 

 ous shoots broadly ovate,, acuminate, rounded at the wide base, sub- 

 coriaceous, coarsely serrate, deeply lobed, often 7 to 8 cm long 

 and. wide, with stout winged petioles. Flowers on slender slightly 

 hairy pedicels, in wide lax many-flowered sparingly villose corymbs, 

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

 narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, 

 usually glandular-serrate below the middle, glabrous on the outer, 

 slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 

 ten; anthers bright pink; styles three or four, surrounded at the 

 base by a broad ring of long white hairs. Fruit ripening the end of 



