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on the back, with a low broad sHghtly grooved ridge, 6.5-7 "^"'' 

 long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with stout stems, long slender erect or 

 diverging branches, and slender nearly straight branchlets dark 

 orange-green more or less tinged with red when they first appear, 

 becoming light chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by small pale 

 lenticels in their first season and dark grayish brown the following 

 year, and armed with slender straight or slightly curved bright 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 2.5-3 ^'^"^ ^ong. 



Clayton, Jefferson co., C. H. Peck (;^'3, type), June 14 and Sep- 

 tember 27, 1907. 



COCCINEAE 



Crataegus chateaugayensis n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate or acute at the apex, concave-cuneate or 

 rarely rounded at the entire base, finely often doubly serrate above 

 with straight glandular teeth, and divided into 4-6 pairs of small 

 acuminate spreading lateral lobes; deeply tinged with red when 

 they unfold, about half grown when the flowers open in the first 

 week of June, and then thin, yellow-green and roughened above by 

 short white hairs and glabrous below, and at maturity dark yellow- 

 green, smooth and slightly villose along the midribs on the upper 

 surface, and paler and lustrous on the lower surface, 5.5-6.5 cm 

 long, and 3.5-4 cm wide, with slender midribs rose colored in the 

 autumn, and thin primary veins arching obliquely to the points of 

 the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 sparingly villose on the upper side while young, becoming glabrous, 

 glandular, with numerous dark usually persistent glands, 2-3 cm in 

 length. Flowers 1.6-1.8 cm in diameter, on long slender glabrous 

 or occasionally slightly hairy pedicels, in compact mostly 10-12- 

 flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes long, 

 slender, acuminate and red at the apex, coarsely an-d conspicuously 

 glandular dentate, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 5 ; filaments per- 

 sistent on the ripe fruit; anthers dark rose color; styles 4 or 5, 

 surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit ripening the middle of September, on stout drooping red 

 glabrous or occasionally slightly hairy pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong to oval, scarlet, marked by large pale dots, 

 slightly pruinose, 1.2-1.4 cm long, 8-10 mm in diameter; calyx 

 prominent, with a short tube, a wide cavity tomentose in the bottom, 

 and spreading and reflexed persistent lobes ; flesh thick, firm light 



