REI'ORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I912 IIj 



Crataegus misella n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic to obovate, acuminate and long-pointed at the 

 apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, finely 

 doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and divided 

 above the middle into three or four pairs of small acuminate spread- 

 ing lobes ; nearly fully grown when the flowers open at the end of 

 May and then thin, yellow-green, roughened above by short white 

 hairs and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, scab- 

 rate on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 5 to 6 cm 

 long and 3.5 to 4 cm wide, with slender midribs, and thin primary 

 veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, 

 narrowly wing-margined at the apex, villose on the upper side while 

 young, soon glabrous, 2 to 2.5 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous 

 shoots narrowed and rounded at . the base, coarsely serrate, more 

 deeply lobed and sometimes 6 cm long and 5 cm wide. Flowers 1.5 

 to 1.7 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in 6-15- 

 flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous or slightly villose, the 

 lobes slender, acuminate, glandular-dentate, glabrous on the outer, 

 villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens five to 

 seven ; anthers rose color ; styles three or four, surrounded at the 

 base by a ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the middle of Septem- 

 ber on red pedicels, in erect clusters, sliort-oblong, rounded at the 

 ends, crimson, marked by small pale dots, 1.2 cm long and i cm in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep cavity pointed in the 

 bottom, and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, 

 firm and bitter ; nutlets three or four, rounded at the ends, broader 

 at the base than at the apex, rounded and ridged on the back with a 

 broad high ridge, usually irregularly depressed on the inner faces, 

 6 to 7 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 

 ing nearly to the base of the nutlet. 



A shrub 3 to 4 m high, with ascending stems and branches, and 

 slender glabrous slightly zigzag branchlets tinged with red and 

 marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming chestnut- 

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

 brown the following year, and armed with stout slightly curved 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 4 to 5 cm long. 



On hillsides in clay soil, near Belfast, Allegany county; Baxter 

 and Dewing (no. 216, type), September 14. 1904, May 2<S and Sep- 

 tember 17, 1905. 



