REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I912 IO3 



Crataegus steubenensis Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 103 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains. 



Crataegus irrasa Sargent 



Rhodora V. 116 (1903). 

 Keene, Essex co. ; also in the Province of Quebec. 



Crataegus perrara n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to broadly oval, acute at the apex, rounded or 

 sharply cuneate at the broad base, finely often doubly serrate 

 with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into 

 four or five pairs of short broad acuminate lobes; nearly fully 

 grown when the fllowers open at the end of May and then thin, 

 yellow-green, roughened above by short white hairs and glab- 

 rous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, scabrate on the 

 upper surface, pale on the lower surface, more or less contorted, 

 4.5 to 5.5 cm long and 3.5 to 4.5 cm ^^-idc, with thin midril^s and 

 primary veins; petioles slender, glabrous, 2 to 3 cm in length; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots rounded, truncate or abruptly cuneate; 

 at the broad base, coarsely serrate, deeply divided into broad 

 lateral lobes and often 8 to 9 cm long and 7 to 8 cm wide. 

 Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on stout slightly hairy pedicels, in 

 compact many-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, sparingly 

 villose with long white hairs, the lobes slender, acuminate, 

 coarsely glandular-serrate, slightly hairy on the outer surface, 

 glabrous on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 

 five to eight ; anthers white ; styles three to five. Fruit ripening 

 the middle of September on drooping red pedicels, short-oblong 

 to slightly obovoid, rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, 1.5 to T.8 cm long and i to 1.2 cm in 

 diameter ; calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow cavity, and 

 erect often incurved lobes ; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy ; 

 nutlets near the apex of the fruit, three to five, broadest and 

 rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, slightly 

 and irregularly ridged on the back, 6 to 7 mm long and 4 to 5 

 mm Avide. 



A shrul) 5 to 6 m high with ascending branches, dark brown 

 scaly bark, and stout zigzag branchlets dark orange-green and 



