ri-:port of tpie state botanist 1912 109 



Crataegus maribella n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and 

 calyx-lobes. Leaves elliptical to obovate or ovate, acute or acumin- 

 ate, cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above with 

 straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into 

 narrow acuminate lobes ; about half grown when the flowers open 

 the end of May and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened 

 above by short white hairs and glaucescent and glabrous below, and 

 at maturity thick, yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper 

 surface, pale on the lower surface, 6 to 8 cm long and 4 to 4.5 cm 

 wide, with stout midribs and thin primary veins extending obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes ; petioles stout, red in the autumn, 2 to 2.5 

 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, rounded at the wide 

 base, 7 to 8 cm long and 6 to 7 cm wide, with stout, winged glandular 

 petioles. Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in 

 wide lax mostly io-14-flowered corymbs, the much elongated lower 

 peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 

 conic, the lobes separated by wide sinuses, gradually narrowed from 

 the base, long-acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, slightly villose 

 on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens twenty ; 

 anthers white ; styles two to four. Fruit ripening the end of Septem- 

 ber on slender drooping pedicels, short-oblong, rounded at the ends, 

 crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, i to 1.2 cm long and 

 9 to 10 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow 

 cavity pointed in the bottom, and reflexed closely appressed lobes 

 often deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh thick, orange color, soft 

 and mealy, nutlets two to four, usually three, narrowed and rounded 

 at the ends, rather broader at the apex than at the base, ridged on the 

 back with a high rounded ridge, 7 to 8 mm long and 4.5 mm wide, 

 the broad hypostyle extending to just below the middle of the 

 nutlet. 



A broad shrub 3 to 4 m high, with erect stems, and stout zigzag 

 branchlets light yellow-green when they first appear, becoming light 

 chestnut-brown, very lustrous and marked by large dark lenticels at 

 the end of their first season and pale gray the following year, and 

 armed with numerous stout straight light chestnut-brown shining 

 spines 3 to 4.5 cm long. 



Rocky banks on the north side of the Mohawk river below Little 

 Falls; J. V. Haberer (no. 2491, type), June i, 1912; Haberer and 

 Dunbar, September 22, 1912. Moss island in the Mohawk river, 



