CRATAEGUS IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. Ill 



§ MOLLES. 



Fruit large, subglobose to short-oblong or pyriform, usually scarlet and 

 lustrous, often edible; nutlets j-^, thin, pointed at the ends, 

 obscurely grooved, or slightly ridged on the back ; corymbs gen- 

 erally 2vide and viany-flozuercd, tomentosc or villosc ; leaves broad, 

 rounded, cuneate or cordate at the base. 



ANTHERS ROSE COLOR. 



Stamens 20. 



Leaves ovate to oval, only slightly pubescent ; fruit short- 

 oblong ; nutlets 4-5. i^. C. Fullcriana. 



Stamens 10, 



Leaves oval, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, their 

 stipules persistent during the season ; fruit oblong; 

 nutlets 3-5. 75. C. Ellwangeriana. 



Leaves oval, thin, drooping and often convex ; fruit oblong ; 

 dull dark red ; nutlets 3-5. 16. C. Pringlei. 



Leaves oblong- ovate, broadly cuneate or rarely cordate at 

 the base ; corymbs very compact, few-flowered ; fruit 

 oblong to obovate ; nutlets 4-5. ly. C. spissiflora. 



Crataegus Fulleriana, n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to oval, acute or acuminate or rounded at the apex, 

 rounded or cuneate at the entire base, very sharply serrate above, 

 with straight gland-tipped teeth, and divided into numerous narrow 

 acuminate spreading lobes ; about half grown when the flowers open, 

 and then membranaceous, roughened above by short pale hairs and 

 pubescent along the midribs and veins below ; at maturity very thin, 

 dark yellow-green and scabrate or nearly smooth on the upper surface, 

 paler and glabrous on the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, 

 with thin midribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing- 

 margined at the apex, grooved, densely villose early in the season, 

 sparingly villose, or pubescent in the autumn,. 2.5-3 cm. in- length ; 

 stipules linear, acuminate, sometimes lobed at the base, glandular, 

 mostly deciduous before the flowers open ; on vigorous leading shoots 

 leaves broadly ovate, more deeply lobed than the leaves of fertile 

 branchlets, often 8-9 cm. long and wide. Flowers 2 cm. in diameter 

 on long slender densely villose pedicels, in wide compact many- 

 flowered hairy comj)ound corymbs ; bracts and bractlets oblong- 



