REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQO/ IO5 



Crataegus verecunda Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 109 (1903). 



Moist hillsides, near Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell ( ;^ 51), Octo- 

 ber I, 1905, June 2, 1906 ( # 56), October 8, 1905, May 30, 1906; 

 grooved ridge, 7-8 mm long, and 4.5-5 mm wide, 

 also at Rochester and near Albany, N, Y. 



Crataegus cornellii n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface of 

 the young leaves. Leaves oval and acuminate at the ends to ovate- 

 acute and abruptly cuneate at the base, finely doubly serrate, with 

 straight glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of small 

 acuminate lateral lobes ; about half grown when the flowers open 

 late in May or early in June and then very thin, dark yellow-green 

 and slightly hairy above, especially on the midribs and veins, and 

 paler below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow- 

 green, smooth and glabrous on the upper surface, pale yellow-green 

 on the lower surface, 4-4.5 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, with thin 

 midribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, often rose color in the autumn, 1-1.2 cm in length; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, truncate at the broad base, deeply 

 3-lobed by narrow sinuses, the terminal lobe often lobed toward 

 the apex, and 3.5-5.5 cm long and broad, with stouter glandular 

 petioles. Flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, on short slender pedi- 

 cels, in compact mostly 4-10-flowered simple corymbs, with linear- 

 obovate to linear conspicuously glandular bracts and branchlets 

 fading rose color ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes broad, 

 acuminate, glandular serrate, often widened and laciniately divided 

 toward the apex, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 10; anthers pale 

 yellow; styles 3-5, usually 3. Fruit ripening the end of Sep- 

 tember, on short stout erect or spreading pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, obovate, rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the 

 base, light orange-yellow, lustrous, marked by small dark dots, 

 1. 3-1. 4 cm long and 1-1.2 cm in diameter; calyx very prominent, 

 with a short tube, a wide deep cavity, and elongated spreading and 

 appressed persistent lobes dark red on the upper side below the 

 middle ; flesh thin, yellow, dry and hard ; nutlets usually 3, rounded 

 and obtuse at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad low slightly 

 grooved ridge, 7-8 mm long and 4.5-5 mm wide. 



