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slender pedicels, in wide many-flowered thin-branched slightly villose 

 corymbs ; bracts and bractlets linear, acuminate, glandular on the 

 margins, with minute dark red stipitate glands ; calyx-tube broadly 

 obconic, the lobes separated by wide rounded sinuses, broad, acumin- 

 ate, glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, villose on the inner 

 surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 10 ; anthers small, pink or 

 light rose color ; styles 3-4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring 

 of pale tomentum. Fruit on slender pedicels, in wide many-fruited 

 pendulous clusters, globose to short-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, marked 

 by few minute dark dots, about i cm, in diameter ; calyx very prom- 

 inent, with a broad shallow cavity, and much enlarged coarsely serrate 

 reflexed villose lobes, dark red on the upper side near the base, often 

 8 mm. in length, and frequently persistent on the ripe fruit ; flesh 

 yellow, thin, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, thin, obtuse at the ends, 

 ridged with a broad grooved ridge or rounded and only slightly 

 grooved on the back, 7 mm. long. 



A shrub occasionally 6 or 7 m. in height with numerous stems 

 often 1.5 dm. in diameter, covered with dark brown scaly bark, 

 spreading into broad dense thickets, small erect or spreading branches 

 forming an irregular open head, and slender zigzag branchlets light 

 orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, bright red- brown, 

 very lustrous and marked by few large scattered pale lenticels at the 

 end of their first season, lustrous and light grayish brown the follow- 

 ing year, and armed w ith numerous slender straight or slightly curved 

 light red-brown or purple shining spines, 3-5 cm. in length ; winter- 

 buds conspicuous, globose, covered with bright red lustrous scales, 

 8 mm. in diameter. Flowers at the end of May or early in June. 

 Fruit ripens the middle of October. 



Rochester, C S. Sargent, September 19, 1899, September, 1900, 

 John Dunbar, May 28 and October 11, 1900, May, June and October, 

 1 90 1, October, 1902 ; Honeoye Lake and Rush, M. S. Baxter, May 

 and September, 1902 ; Buffalo, Jolm Dunbar, May, 1902. 



Crataegus Macauleyae, n. sp. 



Leaves obovate, rhombic, ovate or oval, acute or acuminate or 

 occasionally rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the concave- 

 cuneate entire base, finely and doubly serrate above, with straight 

 incurved glandular teeth and slightly and irregularly lobed above the 

 middle ; about half grown when the flowers open and then thin, dark 

 yellow-green and scabrate above, pale below, slightly villose along the 



