Report of the state botanist 1907 dy 



thesis ; stamens 20 ; anthers pink ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the 

 base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening from the 

 first to the middle of September and soon falling, on long stout 

 glabrous reddish drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, 

 full and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed from above the 

 middle to the base and sometimes decurrent on the pedicel, crimson, 

 lustrous, marked by many small pale dots ; calyx prominent, with a 

 wide very deep cavity, and spreading and incurved coarsely serrate 

 persistent lobes dark red on the upper side toward the base ; flesh 

 thick, dark yellow, juicy and edible; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at the 

 ends, ridged on the back, with a narrow high ridge, 7-8 mm long, 

 and about 5 mm wide. 



A tree sometimes 5 m high, with a trunk occasionally 3 dm in 

 diameter, covered with ashy gray bark, spreading horizontal 

 branches forming a compact shapely head, and slender slightly 

 zigzag glabrous branchlets dark orange-green deeply tinged with 

 purple when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown, very 

 lustrous and marked by small pale lenticels in their first season and 

 dull reddish brown tlie following year, and armed with slender 

 nearly straight bright chestnut-brown shining spines 3.5-4-5 cm 

 long; or an arborescent shrub, with numerous sniall stems. 



Bufi^aio, J. Du'djar and C. S. Sargent {^ 7, type), September 24, 

 1904, J. Dunbar, May 28, 1905. 



This handsome tree is named in memory of David Fisher Day 

 (June II, 1829-August 21, 1901), the author with Judge Clinton, 

 of A Catalogue of the Native and Naturalised Plants of the City 

 of Buffalo and its J^icinity (1883), and of A Catalogue of the 

 Flowering and Fern-like Plants growing without Cultivation in the 

 J^icinity of the Falls of Niagara (1888). 



Crataegus limosa n. sp. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, concave-cuneate or gradually 

 narrowed and rounded at the entire base, coarsely doubly serrate 

 above, with straight glandular teeth, and divided often only above 

 the middle into 6 or 7 narrow acuminate lobes; more than half 

 grown when the flowers open from the 15th to the 20th of May 

 and then very thin, Itright green and roughened above by short 

 white hairs and pale l>luish green and glabrous below, and at ma- 

 turity thin, dark yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface 

 and pale yellow-green on the lower surface, 6~S> cm long and 4-5 cm 

 wide, with stout orange colored midribs, and thin primary veins ex- 



