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red drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, full and 

 rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the base, scarlet, lustrous, 

 marked by large pale dots, 1-1.2 cm long, and 9-10 mm in diameter; 

 calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity, and elongated spreading 

 persistent lobes; flesh thick, yellow, sweet and juicy; nutlets usually 

 5, thin and acute at the ends, flat and slightly grooved on the back, 

 6-6.5 ^^ long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A narrow shrub 3-4 m high, with small stems covered with pale 

 gray bark, erect branches forming a narrow open head, and stout 

 slightly zigzag branchlets deeply tinged with red when they first 

 appear, becoming light orange-brown, lustrous and marked by 

 numerous pale lenticels in their first season and dull gray-brown the 

 following year, and armed with few stout slightly curved light 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 2-2.5 cm long. 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (#49, type), September 

 28, 1905, May 21 and September 21, 1906. 



COCCINEAE 



Crataegus dodgei Ashe 



Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. XIX. 26 (March 1903). Sargent, Acad. Sci. 

 Phila. Proc. 632 (1905); Rhodora VII. 213 (1905). 



Moist hillsides near Coopers Plains. G. D, Cornell (#^30), Sep- 

 tember 21, 1905, May 26, 1906; also southern Michigan to southern 

 New England. 



INTRICATAE 



Stamens 10; anthers pale yellow 



Crataegus intricata Lange 

 Bot. Tidskr. XIX. 246 (1894). Sargent, Rhodora III. 28 riooi). 



Moist hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^25), Septem- 

 ber 30, 1905, June 2, 1906, September 1907; also eastern New York 

 and western and southern New England. 



Crataegus foetida Ashe 



Ann. Carnegie Mns. I, pt III. 380 (1902). Sargent, Acad. Sci. Phila. 

 Proc. 641 (1905); Rhodora VII. 219 (1905). 



Moist hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^34), October i, 

 1905, June 2, 1906, (#55) October 8, 1905, June 4, 1906, (^'98) 

 September 1907 ; also Genesee valley. New York to western Massa- 

 chusetts and eastern Pennsylvania.- 



