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yellow-green, smooth and glabrous on the upper surface, still slightly 

 hairy along the slender yellow midribs and primary veins on the 

 lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 4-5 cm wide; petioles slender, 

 slightly wing-margined at the apex, hairy along the upper side when 

 young, becoming nearly glabrous, glandular, with minute persistent 

 glands, 1.5-2.5 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded or 

 slightly cordate at the base, long-pointed, more coarsely serrate, 

 deeply divided into spreading or incurved lateral lobes, and 6-7 cm 

 long and broad. Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on long slender slightly 

 hairy pedicels, in broad rather compact mostly iC)-i5-flowered 

 corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly ubconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, 

 acuminate, finely glandular serrate below the middle, glabrous on 

 the outer, pubescent on the inner surface, rcflexed after anthesis; 

 stamens 10; anthers pink; styles 2-4. Fruit ripening early in 

 September, on glabrous reddish pedicels, in drooping many-fruited 

 clusters, obovate and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed at 

 the base, scarlet, lustrous, marked by many small pale dots, 1.2-1.3 

 cm long and i-i.i cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a wide 

 shallow cavity, and spreading often persistent lobes dark red on the 

 upper side below the middle and slightly hairy above ; flesh thick, 

 yellow, sweet and juicy ; nutlets 2-4, narrowed and rounded at the 

 ends, or acute at the apex, prominently and irregularly ridged on 

 the back, with a broad deeply grooved ridge or rounded and slightly 

 grooved on the back, 7-8 mm long, and 5-6 mm wide. 



A tree 8-10 m high., with a trunk often 3 dm in diameter, spread- 

 ing and ascending branches forming a broad round-topped sym- 

 metrical head, and slender glabrous branchlets orange-green and 

 slightly tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dull light 

 chestnut-brown and marked by small pale lenticels in their first 

 season and light gray-brown and rather lustrous the following year. 



Meadows near Portage, Ba.xter and Dewing ("^249), September 

 7, 1904 and May 29, 1905. 



This beautiful tree is named for the distinguished philanthropist, 

 William P. Letchworth of Bufifalo, for a long time chairman of the 

 vState Board of Charities of New York, on whose farm at Portage 

 I saw it in the autumn of 1904. 



Crataegus pedicellata Sargent 

 Bot. Gazette, XXXI. 226 (lyoi) ; .Silva N. Am. XIII, loi, t. 677; Rochester 

 Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 116; Man. 448, f. 365. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar, September 26, 1905, May 28, 1906; abundant 

 through Monroe and Ontario counties. New York. 



