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reddish pedicels, in compact few-fruited erect clusters, short-oblong, 

 slightly narrowed from the middle to the ends, orange-red, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, about i .2 cm long and 8 mm wide ; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and small closely ap- 

 pressed persistent lobes bright red on the upper side ; flesh thick, 

 yellow, dry and sweet; nutlets 3, narrowed and acute at the ends 

 or broader and rounded at the base, rounded and only slightly 

 ridged on the back, about 7 mm long, and 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with small ascending stems, and slender 

 nearly straight branchlets dark orange-green more or less tinged 

 with purple and puberulous when they first appear, soon glabrous, 

 becoming bright chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked by numer- 

 ous small dark lenticles in their first season and dull reddish 

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

 curved chestnut-brown shining spines 2-3 cm long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (^ 10, type). May 28 and September 26, 

 1905; J. Dunbar ( '^ 37), May 28, 1905. 



Crataegus luminosa n. sp. 



Leaves oblong- ovate, acuminate, rounded, truncate or rarely cu- 

 neate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight 

 glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of small 

 acuminate lateral lobes ; deeply tinged with red and covered on the 

 upper surface with soft white hair:, and glabrous below when they 

 unfold, about half grown when the flowers open at the end of May 

 and then yellow-green and scabrate above, and at maturity thin, 

 glabrous, smooth and yellow-green on the upper surface, pale on 

 the lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 3.5-4-5 cm wide, with slender 

 yellow mic'ribs and thin primary veins extending tojlie points of 

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

 glandular throughout the season, often tinged with rose color in 

 the autumn, 2-3 cm in length; stipules linear, glandular, fading 

 brown, caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots long-pointed, cordate 

 at the base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed. Flowers 

 1.8 cm in diameter, on long slender glabrous pedicels, in wide long- 

 branched usually 8-io-flowered corymbs, the lowest peduncles from 

 the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the 

 lobes short, slender, sparingly dentate near the middle, glabrous on 

 the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthe- 

 sis ; petals reflexed; stamens 20; anthers dark red; styles 5, sur- 

 rounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit 



