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Stamens lo or less 

 Anthers rose color 



Crataegus rhombifolia Sarg. 



Rhodora, v. 183 (1903). 



Albia, North Albany, West Albany and Thompson Lake, Charles 

 H. Peck (#80), June and September 1903; May and October 

 1904; also southern Connecticut to western Vermont. 



Anthers white 



Crataegus flagrans n. sp. Sarg. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate to oval, acuminate, gradually or abruptly 

 narrowed and concave cuneate at the entire base, coarsely doubly 

 serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into five or six pairs of small acuminate lobes, 

 when they unfold deeply tinged with red and coated with soft 

 white hairs, about half grown when the flowers open from the loth 

 to the middle of May and then membranaceous, yellow green, 

 lustrous and scabrate above, pale and sparingly villose along the 

 midribs and primary veins below, with short hairs sometimes per- 

 sistent through the season, at maturity thin, dull green and still 

 slightly roughened on the upper and pale on the lower surface, 6-8 

 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, with slender yellow midribs, and thin 

 primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes;,, 

 petioles stout, broadly wing-margined to below the middle, grooved 

 on the upper side, villose-pubescent while young, becoming glab- 

 rous, 1-1.5 cm in length; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular, 

 fading rose color, caducous. Flowers about 1.2 cm in diameter, on 

 slender -densely villose pedicels, in mostly 15 to 20-flowered hairy 

 cormybs, the lower branches from the axils of upper leaves, with 

 lanceolate to linear obovate glandular rose-colored bracts and 

 bractlets; calyx tube narrowly obconic, coated with long matted 

 pale hairs, the lobes slender, red, and acuminate at the apex, glan- 

 dular serrate, glabrous on the outer, villose on the inner surface, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers white; styles usually 

 three. Fruit ripening early in October, on slender hairy reddish 

 pedicels, in many-fruited drooping clusters, subglobose, dark 

 crimson, lustrous, 8-10 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with 

 a deep narrow cavity, and closely serrate reflexed lobes mostly 

 deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, orange color, soft and sue- 



