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MOLLES 

 Stamens 10 



Anthers pale yellow 

 Crataegus champlainensis Sarg. 

 Rhodora iii. 20 (1901) ; Silva N. Am. xiii. 105, t. 667 ; Man. 438, f. 356. 

 North Albany, Menands, North Greenbush, Charles H. Peck 

 (#2 gg), May and vSeptember 1904, 1905. 



Crataegus contortifolia n. sp. Sarg. 

 Leaves ovate, acute, rounded, truncate or occasionally abruptly 

 cuneate at the broad entire or glandular base, sharply doubly serrate 

 above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and slightly divided into 

 four or five narrow acuminate lateral lobes, about half grown when the 

 flowers open early in May and then membranaceous, light yellow 

 green and roughened above by short white hairs, and villose below, 

 specially along the midribs and veins, with long soft hairs mostly 

 persistent during the season, at maturity thick and firm to sub- 

 coriaceous, with margins usually more or less contorted or twisted, 

 yellow green, lustrous and scabrate on the upper and dull and pale 

 on the lower surface, 7-8 cm long and nearly as wide, with stout 

 rose-colored midribs, and thin primary veins arching obliquely to 

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

 at the apex, thickly covered when they appear with hoary tomen- 

 tum, becoming villose or pubescent, glandular while young, 3-3.5 

 cm in length; stipules linear, elongated, acuminate, glandular, 

 fading rose color, caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots more coarsely 

 serrate and more deeply lobed, thicker, often 9-10 cm long, with 

 more prominent midribs and veins, and stout petioles bright 

 rose color and conspicuously glandular above the middle, with 

 dark stipitate persistent glands. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in diameter, 

 on short, stout, hoary tomentose pedicels, in compact, usually 9 

 to i2-flowered, hoary-tomento.se corymbs, with lanceolate acuminate 

 glandular bracts and bractlets fading rose color; calyx tube nar- 

 rowly obconic, coated with thick hoary tomentum, the lobes slender, 

 acuminate, glandular serrate, villose pubescent, reflexed after 

 anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pale yellow; styles four or five, 

 surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of white hairs. Fruit 

 ripening from the middle to the end of August and soon falling, 

 on stout pedicels covered with matted pale hairs, in compact 

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

 cherry-red, lustrous, marked by occasional large dark dots, covered 

 with soft whitish hairs most abundant at the ends, about 1.5 cm in 



