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the bottotii, and spreading appressed lobes dark red on the upper 

 side below the middle, flesh thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets three 

 to five, broad and rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 ridged on the back with a broad high ridge, 6 to 7 mm long and 

 4 to 5 mm wide, the broad hypostyle extending to the middle ot 

 the nutlet. 



A shrub 2 to 3 m high, with ascending stems and branches 

 covered with ashy gray bark, and slender nearly straight branch- 

 lets dark orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they 

 first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown and lustrous at the 

 end of their first season, and armed with numerous slender 

 straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 3 to 4 

 cm long. 



Open pastures in heavy soil near Chapin, Ontario county. B. H. 

 Slavin (no. 7, type), September 24, 1908 and May 29, 1909. 



Crataegus conspecta Sargent 

 Ontario Nat. Sci. Bui. 4. 28 (1908). 

 Salamanca; also Chippewa and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. 



Crataegus russata n. sp. 

 (ilabrous. Leaves ovate to obovate, acuminate and long- 

 pointed at the apex, abruptly or gradually narrowed and cuneate 

 at the base, finely doubly serrate with straight glandular teeth, 

 and slightly divided usually above the middle into short broad, 

 acuminate lobes; nearly fully grown when the flmvers open the 

 end of May and then thin, smooth and lustrous above and paler 

 below, and at maturity thick, dark yellow-green on the upper sur- 

 face, pale on the low'er surface, 4 to 4.^ cm long and 2.5 to 4.5 

 cm wide; petioles slender, narrowly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandular with occasional persistent glands, 1.5 to 2 cm in 

 length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, actmiinate, 

 rounded or truncate at the wide base, more coarsely serrate and 

 more deeply lobed, and often 7 cm long and broad, their petioles 

 stout, wing-margined nearly to the base, more or less glandular. 

 Flowers 2 to 2.3 cm in diameter, on slender pedicels, in small 

 compact 5-8-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes 

 separated by wide sinuses, slender, elongated, acuminate, entire, 

 minutely dentate near the middle, reflexed after anthesis ; sta- 

 mens twenty; anthers pale yellow or wdiite ; styles four or fiv^e. 



