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dark green tinged with red, becoming light chestnut-brown and 
very lustrous during their first season, dark dull gray in their 
second year, and armed with stout straight chestnut-brown 
spines 1 to 2 in. long, or sometimes nearly spineless. Flowers 
about May 20. Fruit ripens and falls early in September. 
Rich hillsides and borders of salt marshes. Revere, Massa- 
chusetts, C. &. Faxon, May 1884; Somerset, Massachusetts, 
Miss L. H. Handy, May 1899; Ipswich, Massachusetts, John 
Robinson, May 1900; Tiverton, Rhode Island, C. S. Sargent, 
August 1900; Middlebury, Vermont, Ezra Brainard, 1900. 
It is possible that this is one of the plants cultivated in Europe as Cra- 
taegus coccinea, but | have not been able to find any trace of it as a garden 
plant. 
Crataecus Hormesiana Ashe, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 
167: 78. 1900.— Leaves ovate, pointed, rounded, cuneate or on 
‘vigorous leading shoots sometimes truncate or cordate at the 
base, sharply and often irregularly doubly serrate with sharp 
teeth tipped at first with prominent dark red caducous glands, 
usually slightly lobed with from three to five pairs of acute 
lateral lobes, membranaceous, pale yellow-green above, pale 
and glabrous below, scabrous on the upper surface with short 
rigid white hairs when the flowers open, at maturity becoming 
thick, firm, and nearly smooth, 2 to 3 in. long and 2 to 2% in. 
wide, with prominent midribs and five or six pairs of stout pri- 
mary veins deeply impressed above; petioles slender, terete, 
slightly grooved and glandular on the upper surface with per- 
sistent dark glands, and 1 to 1% in. long; stipules lunate, 
glandular-serrate, small, caducous. Flowers cup-shaped, 3% in. 
in diameter when fully expanded, in loose many-flowered com- 
pound glabrous cymes on slender elongated pedicels; calyx 
‘narrow, glabrous, tinged with red, its cup ‘broad and shallow; 
calyx-lobes acute, glandular-serrate or rarely nearly entire, 
persistent and erect on the fruit; stamens five or occasion- 
ally six, seven, or eight; filaments stout, spreading; anthers 
large, dark purple-red; styles usually three. Fruit pendulous, 
oblong, crowned with the erect conspicuous calyx-lobes, crimson, 
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