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persistent on the ripe fruit; anthers pink; styles 3-5, surrounded at 

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

 end of September, on slender reddish pedicels, in few-fruited erect 

 clusters, short-oblong to obovate, orange-red, lustrous, marked by 

 large pale lenticels, about i cm long and 8--10 mm wide; calyx little 

 enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, and closely appressed lobes 

 dark red on the upper side below the middle; flesh thin, yellow- 

 green, dry and mealy; nutlets usually 4, narrowed and acute at the 

 ends or rounded at the base, rounded or ridged on the back, with a 

 low broad ridge, light colored, 7-8 mm long, and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 4-5 m high, with crowded slender fastigiate light gray 

 branches, the lower spreading, the upper ascending, and stout 

 only slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets light orange-green when 

 they first 'appear, becoming dull olive-brown and marked by small 

 dark lenticels in their first season and dull gray -brown the following 

 year, and armed with few stout nearly straight dull dark chestnut- 

 brown spines 2.5-3 cm in length. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (#41, type), May 28, June 12 and September 

 26, 1905. 



Crataegus dunbari Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 126 (1903). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (#43), September 26, 1905, May 28, 1906; 

 also near Rochester, New York. 



Crataegus asperifolia Sargent 



Rhodora III. 31 (1901). Sargent and Peck, N. Y. Slate Mns. Bui. 105. 

 64 (1906). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar ()^ 13), September 29, 1903, June i and Sep- 

 tember 20, 1904; (;5^'46), May 28, 1906; ( ;^ 43), September 26, 

 1905, May 28, 1906; also near Albany, New York and in western 

 New England. 



Crataegus scabrida Sargent 



Rhodora III. 29 (1901) ; Silva N. Am. XIII. 133, t. 677. 



Belfast, Allegany co., Baxter and Dewing (;5i<'2io). May 29 and 

 September 17, 1903, September 13, 1904, May 29 and September 19, 

 1905 ; also in western New England. 



