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glabrous, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-8; anthers pale pink; 

 styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale tomen- 

 turn. Fruit ripening at the end of September, on slender drooping 

 red pedicels, in few- fruited clusters, obovate, scarlet, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, 1.2-1.5 cm long and about i cm wide; 

 calyx little enlarged, with a wide shallow cavity, and spreading and 

 appressed persistent lobes dark red on the upper side below the 

 middle ; flesh thick, yellow, sweet and juicy ; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at 

 the ends, slightly ridged or grc^oved on the back, alx>ut 7 mm long, 

 and 3 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with dark gray stems, and stout i^igzag 

 glabrous branchlets dark orange-green when they first appear, be- 

 coming dark chestnut-brown or orange-brown and marked with 

 numerous small dark lenticels in their first season and dull reddish 

 brown the following year, and armed with very stout straight or 

 slightly curved light red-brown shining spines 4-6 cm land and 

 branched and persistent on old stems. 



Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar ("^31, type), September 27, 1905, and 

 May 28, 1906. 



Crataegus inusitula n. sp. 

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

 rounded or abruptly concave-cuneate at the broad entire base, 

 coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and 

 divided usually only above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of short 

 broad acuminate lobes; tinged with red when they unfold, not more 

 than one third grown wdien the flowers open about the first of June 

 and then bluish green and roughened above by short white hairs 

 and pale and slightly villose in the axils of the veins below, and at 

 maturity subcoriaceous, dark blue-green, smooth or scabrate on the 

 u]5per surface, pale blue-green and glabrous on the lower surface, 

 4-7 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, with thin yellow midribs and 3 or 4, 

 usually 3 pairs of slender primary veins; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, sparingly hairy on the upper side while 

 young, becoming glabrous, glandular, with minute persistent glands, 

 1.5-3.5 d'' ^" length; leaves on vigorous shoots thicker-, rounded at 

 the broad base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, often 

 7-8 cm long and 6-7 cm wide. Flowers 1.5 cm in diameter, on long 

 slender sparingly villose pedicels, in compact mostly 5-7-flowered 

 corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx- 

 tube broa^lly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed from 

 wide bases, short, acuminate, entire or irregularly dentate, glabrous, 



