130 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



A narrow shrub 3-4 m high, with small ashy gray stems, ascend- 

 ing branches, and stout slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets light 

 orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, 

 becoming light chestnut-brown and very lustrous in their first season 

 and light reddish-brown the following year, and armed with stout 

 straight purplish shining spines 3.5-4 cm long and pointing toward 

 the apex of the branch. 



Roadside west of Honeoye lake, Ontario co.. New York, H. T. 

 Brown (#35, type), May 28 and October 16, 1906. 



