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pale blue-green and still slightly villose below along the prominent 

 midribs, and six to eight pairs of thin conspicuous primary veins 

 extending obliquely to above the middle of the leaf ; petioles stout, 

 narrowly wing-margined often to below the middle, tinged with 

 red late in the season, 1.5 to 2.5 cm in length. Flowers 1.5 cm 

 in diameter, on long slender villose pedicels, in lax few-flowered 

 slightly hairy corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with long pale hairs, 

 the lobes slender, acuminate, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the 

 outer, puberulous on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens twenty ; anthers pink ; styles two. Fruit ripening the middle 

 of October, on long slender red pedicels slightly villose near the apex, 

 subglobose to short-oblong, crimson, lustrous, about i cm in diam- 

 eter ; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity pointed in 

 the bottom, the lobes generally deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh 

 yellow, becoming soft and succulent when the fruit is fully ripe ; 

 nutlets two, rounded at the obtuse ends, ridged on the back with a 

 low rounded ridge, about 5 mm long and 3 mm wide, penetrated 

 on the inner face by deep narrow cavities. 



An arborescent shrub with stems spreading into great clumps, 

 5 to 10 m high, 30 cm in diameter and covered with very dark 

 brown bark broken into small closely appressed scales, ascending 

 branches, and slender glabrous branchlets pale yellow-green early 

 in the season, becoming bright reddish brown before autumn, and 

 armed with stout slightly curved spines 4 to 5 cm long. 



Open pastures in heavy soil on Sonnenberg, the beautiful Thomp- 

 son estate at Canandaigua, Ontario county; R. H. Slavin (no. 51, 

 type), June 3 and October 15, 1909. 



Crataegus frutescens Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 113 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains. 



Crataegus honeoyensis Sargent 



N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 129 (1908). 

 Honeoye lake, Hemlock lake and Campbell. 



Crataegus admiranda Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 80 (1908). 

 Niagara Falls. 



