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face, 5-6.5 cm long and 4.5-5 cm \vi je, with stout yellow midribs 

 sometimes tinged with rose color in the autumn, and thin remote 

 primary veins extending to the points of the lobes; petioles stout, 

 wing-margined at the apex, sparingly glandular early in the season, 

 tinged with rose color in the autumn, 2-4 cm in length ; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots usually broader and rounded or cordate at the 

 base, more deeply lobed and sometimes (>-'] cm long and wide. 

 Flowers on short slender glabrous pedicels, in compact' 3-8, usually 

 5-flowered corymbs, with small linear rose colored bracts and bract- 

 lets ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lubes short and broad, min- 

 utely serrate near the middle, glabrous, red and glandular at the 

 acuminate apex, reflexed after anthesis; stamens usually 5; anthers 

 purplish red ; styles 2-4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of 

 long pale hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September, on stout 

 drooping reddish pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, full and 

 rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the base, bright orange- 

 red, pruinose, marked by numerous pale dots, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm 

 long, and 8-10 mm wide ; calyx-tube little enlarged, with a broad 

 shallow cavity, and narrow spreading lobes dark red on the upper 

 side below the mid'lle, their tips incurved or more often deciduous 

 from the ripe fruit ; nutlets 2 or 3, narrow and rounded at the 

 ends, prominently ridged on the back, witli a broad deeply grooved 

 ridge, liglit colored, 7-8 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 5-6 m high, with stout stems, very tortuous 

 horizontal or ascending branches, and slender slightly zigzag glab- 

 rous branchlets, dark orange-green when they first appear, becom- 

 ing bright chestnut-brown and marked by dark lenticels in their 

 first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and armed 

 with numerous stout nearly straight bright chestnut-brown shining 

 ultimately dull gray spines 2-3 cm long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar, ( ,•?> 25, type), September 30, 1904, May 28 

 and September 26, 1905; J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent ( #29), 

 September 30, 1904; ( # 17), September 24, 1904, J. Dunbar, May 

 28, 1905. 



Crataegus xanthophylla n. sp. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the entire 

 or glandular base, sharply doubly serrate, with straight glandular 

 teeth, and divided above the middle into 3 or 4 small acuminate 

 lobes; nearly half grown when the flowers open at the end of May 

 and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by short 



