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narrow mostly 8-io-flowered sparingly villose corymbs, the lower 

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

 conic, covered at the base with long scattered white hairs, the lobes 

 separated by wide sinuses, glabrous on the outer surface, slightly 

 villose on the inner surface ; stamens ten ; anthers pink in the bud, 

 fading white as the flowers open ; styles three or four. Fruit ripening 

 the end of September on slender pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, 

 subglobose but often slightly longer than broad, crimson, lustrous, 

 marked by large pale dots, i to 1.2 cm in diameter; calyx little en- 

 larged, with a broad shallow cavity and reflexed appressed lobes ; 

 flesh thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets three or four, rounded at the ends, 

 rather broader at the apex than at the base, ridged on the back with 

 a high deeply grooved ridge 7 to 8 mm long and about 4 mm wide, 

 the broad conspicuous hypostyle extending to just below^ the middle 

 of the nutlet. 



A broad shrub 5 to 6 m high, with stout stems covered with dark 

 scaly bark, erect spreading branches, and slender slightly zizag 

 branchlets tinged w'ith red and marked by numerous pale lenticels 

 when they first appear, becoming dark chestnut-brown and lustrous 

 at the end of their first season and ashy gray the following year, and 

 armed with stout straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining 

 spines 3 to 4.5 cm. long. 



Swampy hilltops south of Utica, rare; J. A'. Haberer (no. 2412, 

 type), June 4, September 22 and October 6, 1907, September 19, 

 1912; Haberer, Dunl^ar and Sargent, September 28, 1912. 



This interesting species is named for Thomas Redfield Proctor, 

 a public-spirited citizen of Utica to whose generosity the city owes 

 its public parks, covering an area of some five hundred acres. 



Crataegus maligna n. sp. 

 Leaves elliptical to slightly obovate, acute or acuminate, gradually 

 narrowed and cuneate or rounded at the base, finely serrate with 

 straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into three or 

 four pairs of short broad acute lobes ; nearly fully grown when the 

 flowers open the middle of June and then yellow-green and rough- 

 ened above by short white hairs and glabrous below, and at matvunty 

 thin 1)ut firm in texture, glabrous, dark yellow-green on the upper 

 surface, pale on the lower surface, 4 to 4.5 cm long and 3 to 3.5 cm 

 wide, with thin midribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, glabrous, occasionally glandular, 1.5 to 

 2 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, rounded or abruptly 



