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surrounded at the base by a ring of pale tomentum. Fruit on slen- 

 der drooping pedicels, ripening in October and persistent on 

 the branches for several weeks, obovoid, rounded at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed at the base, pale red, pruinose, 1.3 to 1.5 cm 

 long and 1 cm in diameter; calyx prominent with a long tube, a 

 wide deep cavity pointed in the bottom, and spreading lobes 

 mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh hard and dry, tinged 

 with red ; nutlets four or hve, rounded at the ends, rather broader 

 at the apex than at the base, rounded and slightly grooved on the 

 back, 6 mm long and 3.4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 

 ing one-third the length of the nutlet. 



A shrub 3 to 4 m high, with stout stems covered near the base 

 with gray-brown scaly bark, ascending branches, and slender 

 nearly straight zigzag branchlets dark orange-brown and marked 

 by pale lenticels wdien they first appear, 1)ecoming bright chest- 

 nut-brown and lustrous at the end of their first season and dull 

 gray-brovvn the following year, and armed with numerous slen- 

 der straight dark chestnut-brown shining spines 3 to 5 cm long. 



Hillsides, near Painted Post, Steuben county, common ; G. D. 

 Cornell (no. 132, type), October 1907; May 26, 1908. 



Crataegus formosa Sargent 

 Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. loi (1903). 

 Near Rochester, Coopers Plains, Murray, Niagara Falls, Buf- 

 falo and Salamanca. 



Crataegus cognata Sargent 

 Rhodora V. 58 (1903); N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 41 (1908). 

 Dykemans, Castile, Coopers Plains, Tuscarora, Hemlock lake, 

 Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Chapin ; also southern New England and 

 southern Ontario. 



Crataegus rubro-lutea Sargent 



N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 88 (1908). 

 Coopers I*lains. 



Crataegus casta Sargent 



N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 105. 53 (1906). 

 Coopers Plains. 



