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Crataegus conspicua Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 105. 74 (1906). 

 Near Albany; also in western W^rmont. 



Crataegus beckiana Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 105. 75 (1906). 

 North Greenhusli. 



Crataegus ogdensburgensis n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to obovate, acute or acuminate, gradually nar- 

 rowed and concave-cuneate at the entire base, sharply doubly 

 serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into small acuminate lobes; fully grown when 

 the flowers open in the first week of June and then thin, yellow- 

 green, covered above by soft hairs and slightly villose along the 

 midribs and veins below, and at maturity thick, dark green, 

 smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, pale and nearly 

 glabrous on the lower surface, 5 to 7 cm long and 4 to 5 cm w^ide, 

 with stout rose colored midribs, and slender primary veins ex- 

 tending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles stout, wing- 

 margined to the base, slightly villose on the upper side early in 

 the season, soon becoming glabrous, i to 1.5 cm in length; sti- 

 pules lanceolate, acuminate, slightly falcate, glandular-serrate, 

 often persistent until the flowers open ; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 broadly ovate, often 9 to 10 cm long and 6 to 7 cm wide. Flowers 

 1.5 to 1.7 cm in diameter, on long slender slightly villose pedicels, 

 in wide lax mostly i6-i8-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles 

 from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the 

 lobes broad, long-acuminate, laciniately glandular-serrate, glab- 

 rous on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface, reflexed 

 after anthesis ; stamens ten; anthers pale pink; styles two or 

 three. Fruit ripening the end of September on long pedicels, in 

 wide drooping many-fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, 

 rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale 

 dots, 9 to Ti cm in diameter; calyx prominent, with a short tube, 

 a wide shallow cavity pointed in the bottom, and reflexed closely 

 appressed persistent lol)es dark red on the upper side below the 

 middle; flesh thick, soft and succulent; nutlets two or three, 

 rounded at the ends, rounded and slightly ridged on the back, 

 penetrated on tlie inner faces by short narrow cavities. 6 to 7 



