REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1905 57 



2-3 cm wide, or occasionally 6-7 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, with thin 

 yellow midribs and slender primary veins arching obliquely to the 

 points of the lobes; petioles very slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, nearly terete, glandular, with occasional scattered 

 glands, glabrous, 1.5-2 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 rounded, truncate or abruptly cuneate at the broad base, coarsely 

 serrate, more deeply lobed, often 7-8 cm long and 5-6 cm wide. 

 Flowers on slender glabrous pedicels, in usually five to eight-flower- 

 ed corymbs; calyx tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes slen- 

 der, acuminate, glabrous, entire or sparingly glandular near the 

 middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens seven or eight; filaments 

 persistent in fruit ; anthers dark red ; styles three or four, surrounded 

 at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening 

 from the first to the middle of September, on elongated slender 

 pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong to subglo- 

 bose, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm long, 

 8-9 mm wide; calyx little enlarged, with a wide deep cavity and 

 narrow closely appressed entire or slightly serrate lobes dark red 

 on the upper side below the middle and usually persistent on the 

 ripe fruit; flesh yellow, juicy, of excellent flavor; nutlets three or 

 four, usually three, gradually narrowed and. rounded at the ends, 

 slightly ridged on the back, with a low rounded ridge, about 6 mm 

 long and 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with slender subcrect or diverging stems, 

 slender nearh" straight branchlets marked by numerous small dark 

 lenticels, light orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, 

 light chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first winter, becom- 

 ing dull gray brown in their second year, and armed with numerous 

 slender curv^ed chestnut-brown shining spines 2-3 cm in length. 



West Albany (east side) and North Albany, Charles H. Peck 

 (#93 wa, type). May, August and October 1904. 



Crataegus ascendens Sarg. 

 Rhodora, v. 141 (1903). 



Thompson Lake, Charles H. Peck (# 76), May and September 

 1903; also in western Vermont. 



Stamens 20 



Anthers rose color or purple 

 Crataegus edsoni Sarg. 

 Rhodora, vii. 205 (1905). 



Lansingburg, Charles H. Peck (# 15I), May and September 1903; 

 also from western Vermont to western New Hampshire. 



