REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 5 1 



sometimes 8-9 cm long and 7-8 cm wide, with broadly winged 

 petioles and foliaceous lunate coarsely serrate persistent stipules. 

 Flowers 1.6 cm in diameter, on slender elongated glabrous pedicels, 

 in broad lax many-flowered corymbs, with linear to oblong-obovate 

 glandular caducous bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 

 conic, glabrous, the lobes long, narrow, acuminate, entire or slightly 

 dentate below the middle, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 

 5-7 ; anthers pink ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a broad 

 ring of long white hairs. Fruit ripening at the end of September, 

 on long slender drooping pedicels, in many-fruited clusters, oblong- 

 obovate, tapering at the long base, crimson, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm long 

 and 7-8 mm wide ; cal3ix little enlarged, with a small shallow cavity, 

 and reflexed often closely appressed elongated narrow lobes; flesh 

 thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, rounded at the base, acute at 

 thet apex, only slightly ridged on the back. 8-9 mm long, and about 

 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous stems covered with dark 

 gray scaly bark, ascending branches, and slender zigzag glabrous 

 branchlets bright orange-green more or less tinged with purple wdien 

 they first ai)pear, becoming light chestnut-brown and marked by 

 large pale lenticels in their first season and pale gray-brown the 

 following year, and armed with slender slightly curved light chest- 

 nut-brown shining spines 4-5 cm long, often pointing to the base 

 of the branch, and compound and persistent on old stems. 



Niagara Falls, J- Dunbar, ( # 4, type). May 21 and September, 

 1903, Junei, 1904; T- Dunbar and C. S. Sargent ( # 19), September 

 16, 1904, J. Dunbar, Alay 28, 1905. J. Dunbar {^ 30"). September 

 27, 1905, May 28, 1906. 



Crataegus strigosa n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate and long pointed at the apex, cuneate 

 at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight gland- 

 ular teeth, and divided into 5 or 6 pairs of small acuminate spread- 

 ing lateral lobes; more than half grown when the flowers open at 

 the end of May and then membranaceous, yellow-green and rough- 

 ened above by short rigid white hairs and pale and glabrous below, 

 and at maturity thin, yellow-green and scabrate on the upper sur- 

 face and light yellow-green on the lower surface, 4-5 cm long and 

 3.5-4 cm wide, with stout midribs, and 5 or 6 pairs of prominent 

 primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandular throughout the season, 2-2.5 ^""^ i^^ length. Flowers 



