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Leaves oblong-ovate to oval, hirsute while young on the 

 upper surface ; corymbs few-flowered ; stamens 10 ; 

 anthers pale rose color ; fruit subglobose and usually 

 broader than high to short-obovate, crimson ; nutlets 

 3-4. g. C. opulens. 



Leaves usually ovate to deltoid, villose while young ; corymbs 

 many-flowered ; stamens 10 ; anthers dark purple ; 

 fruit globose, scarlet, scarcely pruinose ; nutlets 4. 



10. C. Maineana. 



Crataegus beata, n. sp. 



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

 the young leaves and petioles. Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, full 

 and rounded or broadly concave-cuneate, or on leading shoots 

 sometimes cordate at the entire base, sharply double serrate above, 

 with straight gland-tipped teeth, and divided into numerous long nar- 

 row acuminate spreading lobes ; when they unfold deeply tinged with 

 red and villose on the upper surface, and about one-third grown when 

 the flowers open, and then very thin, dark yellow, and still slightly 

 hairy ; at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark, dull blue-green and 

 smooth above, pale blue-green below, 5-8 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, 

 with stout yellow midribs and slender primary veins arching obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, grooved, furnished with numerous small dark glands, spar- 

 ingly hairy at first, soon glabrous, often rose color in the autumn, 

 2.5-4 cm. in length ; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular, on leading 

 shoots often lobed at the base, caducous. Flowers on long slender 

 pedicels, in broad dense many-flowered compound corymbs ; calyx-tube 

 broadly obconic, the lobes separated by wide rounded sinuses, small, 

 acuminate, entire or undulate or occasionally glandular on the margins, 

 reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 20 ; anthers large, dark maroon 

 color ; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale 

 hairs. Fruit on slender pedicels in drooping many-fruited clusters, 

 oblong to oblong-obovate, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, 

 marked by many small pale dots, pruinose, i. i-i. 3cm. long, 9-10 mm. 

 wide ; calyx comparatively small with a very short tube, a broad 

 shallow cavity, and slender spreading nearly entire lobes, dark red on 

 the upper side near the base, their tips often deciduous from the ripe 

 fruit ; flesh very thick, dry and mealy ; nutlets usually 5, full and 

 rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the acute base, rounded 



