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and broad, with short stout conspicuously glandular petioles. Flow- 

 ers 1. 5-1. 6 cm in diameter, on long slender glabrous pedicles, in broad 

 lax usually 8-i2-flowere:l corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 

 glabrous, the lobes stout, broad, acuminate, slightly serrate usually 

 only above the middle, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the 

 inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 7-10; anthers dark 

 rose color ; styles usually 3. Fruit ripening early in October, on 

 long slender red drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, 

 crimson, lustrous, marked by numerous small pale dots, 1-1.2 cm 

 long and 8-10 mm wide; calyx prominent, with a narrow deep 

 cavity, and spreading or slightly appressed persistent lobes (lark red 

 on the upper side below the middle; flesh thin, yellow, dry and 

 mealy ; nutlets 3, narrowed and acute at the ends or rounded at the 

 base, prominently ridged on the back, with a broad doubly grooved 

 ridge, dark colored, 6-7 mm long, and about 4 mm wide. 



A leafy shrub 3-4 m high, with ascending tortuous stems covered 

 with dark scaly bark, stout glabrous branchlets purple and marked 

 by large pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming light chest- 

 nut-brown and lustrous in their first season and light reddish brown 

 the following year, and armed with stout straight or slightly curved 

 bright chestnut-brown and shining ultimately dull gray-brown spines 

 1.5-4 cm. long. 



Niagara Falls, J Dunbar and C. S. Sargent ( '^ 20, type, and 27), 

 September 16, 1904, J- Dunbar, May 28, 1905. 



Crataegus cruda n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly or gradually nar- 

 rowed and cuneate at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate above, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided often only above 

 the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of small acuminate spreading lobes ; 

 nearly half grow^n wdien the flowers open during the last week of 

 May and then membranaceous, yellow-green and scabrate above 

 and paler and glabrous below, and at maturity thin but firm in tex- 

 ture, yellow-green, smooth, glabrous, 5-6 cm long and 4-4.5 cm 

 wide; petioles very slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glabrous, 2.5-3 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots coarsely 

 serrate, more deeply lobe;l, gra^lually narrowed below into broad- 

 winged petioles, often 9-10 cm long and 6-7 cm wide. Flowers 

 1. 2-1. 4 cm in diameter, on very slender glabrous pedicels, in long- 

 branched lax usually 7-10-flowered corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, glabrous, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, usually entire. 



