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Crataegus pulchra n. sp. 



Glabrous. Leaves ovate to oval, acuminate, rounded or occa- 

 sionally cuneate at the entire base, finely often doubly serrate above, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and divided very slightly above the 

 middle into 3 or 4 pairs of short broad acuminate lobes; deeply 

 tinged with red when they unfold, more than half grown when the 

 flowers open at the end of May and then thin, yellow-green above 

 and paler below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, 4.5-5.5 cm 

 long and broad, with slender yellow midribs, and obscure primary 

 veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined sometimes nearly 

 to the middle, glandular with minute dark glands, 2—2.5 ^"^ ^" 

 length. Flowers about 1.8 cm in diameter, on slender pedicels, in 

 compact mostly 6-8-flowered corymbs, with linear acuminate glan- 

 dular bracts and bractlets fading rose color ; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire or sparingly glandular 

 toward the apex, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 10; anthers ma- 

 roon; styles 2-4. Fruit ripening the middle of September, on 

 short stout pedicels, in drooping 2-3-fruited clusters, short-oblong, 

 full and rounded at the ends, cherry-red, pruinnse, marked by small 

 pale dots, 1-1.2 cm in diameter; calyx prominent, with a broad 

 shallow cavity, and widespreading or closely appressed usually per- 

 sistent lobes dark red on the upper side ; flesh thin, yellow, dry or 

 mealy ; nutlets 2-4, narrowed and acute at the ends or rounded at 

 the base, ridged on the back, with a narrow rounde:l ridge, light 

 colored, about 8 mm long, and 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 1-2.5 m high, with small stems spreading into thickets, 

 and slender nearly straight branchlets orange-green tinged with red 

 when they first appear, becoming chestnut-brown, lustrous and 

 marked by small pale lenticels in their first season, and dark red- 

 brown the following year, and armed with thin nearly straight 

 purple ultimately gray-brown spines 3-5 cm long. 



Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent (;5^25, type), Sep- 

 tember 16, 1904. J. Dunbar, May 28, 1905 ; Buffalo, ( )!^ 11) ]. Dun- 

 bar, September 30, 1904, and May 28, 1905; (# 23), J. Dunbar 

 and C. S. Sargent, September 16, 1904, J. Dunbar, May 28, 1905. 



Crataegus radiata n. sp. 



Glabrous. Leaves ovate, acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the 



entire base, coarsely doubly serrate alxn-e, witli straight gland-tipped 



teeth, and divided into 3 or 4 ])airs of narrow acuminate spreading 



lateral lobes; nearly half grown when the flowers open about the 



