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ol)l()ng-ol)ovate acuminate glandular serrate bracts and bractlets 

 fading brown and ijcrsistcnt until tlie flowers open, the long lower 

 peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, thickly coated with matted pale hairs, the lobes 

 abruptly narrowed from broad bases, wide, acuminate, lacini- 

 ately glandular serrate, sparingly hairy toward the base on the 

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

 anthesis; stamens 20; filaments often persistent on the ripe fruit; 

 anthers light rose color ; styles 2, surrounded at the base by a broad 

 ring of tomentum. Fruit ripening late in September, on slender 

 reddish hairy pedicels, in wide lax many-fruited drooping clusters, 

 oval to ovate, full and rounded at the ends, scarlet, lustrous, marked 

 by large pale dots; calyx prominent, with a wide deep cavity, and 

 closely appressed persistent lobes dark red above at the base and 

 villose on the upper surface; flesh thin, yellow, sweet and succulent; 

 nutlets 2, full and rounded at the base, narrow and rounded at the 

 apex, slightly ridged on the back, with a narrow grooved ridge, 

 deeply penetrated on the inner face by long wide cavities, about 

 7 mm long, and 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 2.5-3 ^^^ '-ig^'i^ with numerous stems covered with dark 

 gray bark, spreading" branches, stout zigzag glabrous branchlets 

 light yellow-green when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut- 

 brown, very lustrous and marked by large pale lenticels in their 

 first season and dull red-brown the following year, and armed with 

 nearly straight stout or slender purplish shining spines 3-4 cm 

 long. 



Rich alluvial soil, near Canandaigua, Ontario co., C. C. L^.ney 

 (#A. type), October 14, 1901, C. S. Sargent, October i, 1902, 

 M. S. Baxter, May 30 and September 20, 1903. 



This handsome species is named for Mr Calvin Cook Laney, 

 superintendent of the parks of the city of Rochester, New York, 

 a keen and enthusiastic student of Crataegus, by whom it was first 

 noticed in 1901. 



Crataegus ferentaria Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 135 ('1903); Rhcdora VII. 184. 



Bufifalo, J. Dunbar (?^ 15), June i, 1904, May 28 and June 

 12, 1905 ; also near Rochester and Utica, New York and eastward 

 to New England, 



