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cuneate at the wide base, 4.5 to 5 cm long and broad. Flowers 1.8 

 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in wide mostly 

 15-20-flowered corymbs, the low.er peduncles from the axils of 

 upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, slightly villose at the 

 base, the lobes separated by wide sinuses, broad, acuminate, gland- 

 ular-serrate, glabrous on the outer surface, villose on the inner sur- 

 face, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens five to ten ; anthers pink ; 

 styles three or four, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 

 white hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September on drooping red 

 pedicels, short-oblong, slightly narrowed and rounded at the base, 

 crimson, lustrous, marked by occasional pale dots, 1.2 to 1.3 cm long 

 and 9 to 10 mm in diameter ; calyx prominent with a short tube, a 

 very deep narrow cavity pointed in the bottom, and reflexed ap- 

 pressed persistent lobes ; flesh thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets three or 

 four, acute at the apex, broader and rounded at the base, ridged on 

 the back with a low ridge, occasionally depressed on the inner sur- 

 faces, 7 to 7.5 mm long and 4 to 4.5 mm wide, the broad prominent 

 hypostyle extending to just below the middle of the nutlet. 



A shrub 3 to 4 m tall, with ascending stems covered at the base 

 with scaly bark, ascending branches forming a compact head, and 

 stout slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets light orange-green when 

 they first appear, bright chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by 

 large pale lenticels at the end of their first season and dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with numerous slender straight 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 7 to 8 cm long. 



Open pastures in moist soil near Ogdensburg. J. Dunbar (no. 

 49, type), June 12 and September 28, 1907. 



A slight depression which occurs on the inner faces of some of the 

 nutlets indicates the relationship of this very distinct species with 

 the Anomalae, but such depressions are not constant and in other 

 characters it is more like the Rotundifoliae with which I have placed 

 it rather than with the Anomalae. 



Crataegus praecoqua Sargent 

 Rhodora V. 167 (1903). _ 

 Crataegus praecox Sargent. Rhodora III. 27 (not Loudon) (1902). 

 Crown Point, Fort Ann ; also in northern Illinois, Wisconsin 

 and the Province of Quebec. 



