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virgate branchlets, light orange-green when they first appear, dull 

 light gray-brown at the end of their first season, becoming pale gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with few slender straight, or 

 slightly curved dark chestnut-brown shining spines 4-5 cm. long; 

 winter-buds globose, appearing pale by the production of the light 

 yellow inner scales beyond the bright red-brown lustrous outer scales, 

 rarely more than 1.5 mm. in diameter. Flowers from the 20th to the 

 25th of May. Fruit ripens at the end of September and does not fall 

 until after the middle of October. 



Rochester, Jolvi Dunbar, May 24, 1900, C. S. Sargent, September 

 18, 1900, May, September and October, 1901, October, 1902 ; La 

 Salle, New York, John Dunbar, September, 1902. 



Crataegus rubicunda, n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at the apex, 

 concave-cuneate or rounded at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate 

 above, with gland-tipped teeth, and deeply divided into 4 or 5 pairs of 

 lateral lobes : more than half grown when the. flowers open and then 

 roughened above by short pale hairs and glabrous below ; at maturity 

 thin, light yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, paler on 

 the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long, 4-4 5 cm. wide, with thin yellow mid- 

 ribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly grooved, pubescent, 

 soon glabrous, occasionally glandular early in the season, tinged with 

 red in the autumn, 2-2.5 cm. in length. Flowers i. 2-1.4 cm. in 

 diameter on long, slender, slightly hairy pedicels, in wide loose many- 

 flowered thin-branched compound corymbs ; bracts and bractlets 

 linear, glandular, with minute dark glands, small, mostly deciduous 

 before the flowers open ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, reddish, spar- 

 ingly hairy toward the base, the lobes slender, acuminate, irregularly 

 glandular-serrate or entire, bright red toward the apex, reflexed after 

 anthesis ; stamens 10 ; anthers small, pinkish purple ; styles 2 or 3. 

 Fruit on elongated reddish pedicels, in many-fruited drooping clusters, 

 oblong, full and rounded at the ends, scarlet, lustrous, marked by 

 numerous small pale dots, from 1.2 to 1.4 cm. long, about 8 cm. wide ; 

 calyx prominent with a broad shallow cavity and reflexed and closely 

 appressed lobes bright red on the upper side near the base, their tips 

 mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh thin, juicy, red ; nutlets 2 

 or 3, full and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed and acute at 

 the base, prominently ridged on the back, with a high narrow rounded 

 ridge, 7-8 mm. long. 



