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lustrous, % to 34 in. long, with thin dry yellow flesh of disagree- 
able flavor; nutlets prominently ribbed, light chestnut-brown, 
about % in. long. 
A tree occasionally 30 feet in height with a well developed 
trunk 12 to 15 inches in diameter, covered with pale or nearly 
white scaly bark, stout upright branches forming an open irregu- 
lar or more rarely a broad compact head, stout chestnut-brown 
branchlets and straight usually infrequent spines 1% to 2 in. 
long. Flowers from the 5th to the middle of May. Fruit 
ripens and falls early in September. 
From the Province of Quebec, /. G. Jack, and Ontario, D. W. 
Beadle, to Maine, Gardner, Alice M. Richards, Ellsworth, Mrs. 
M. A. Clarke, North Berwick, Mrs. John Parlin, Acworth, R. 
Hoffman; New Hampshire, Holderness, C. Z. and W. Faxon, 
Haverhill, #. Faxon, Troy, Rand and Robinson; Vermont, Char- 
lotte, 7. H. Horsford, Ferrisburg and West Addison, Ezra 
Lrainard, Bennington, Rutland, North Pownal, and Fairhaven, 
W. W. Eggleston, Rutland, C. S. Sargent; Massachusetts, Berlin 
and West Boylston, J. G. Jack, South Lancaster, C. S. Sargent, 
Lanesboro, C. £. Faxon; New York, “‘N. N.Y.” in Herb. Gray, 
without date, Fort Crown Point, Ezra Brainard, Rochester, C. C. 
Laney ; Rhode Island, Tiverton, Miss Alice Sargent; and Pennsyl- 
vania, Sellersville, Dr. C. D. Fretz. 
Crataegus Holmesiana inhabits rich moist hillsides and the borders of 
streams and swamps, and is always easily recognized by the pale bark of the 
stem, the distinctly yellow color of the leaves, the small cup-shaped flowers 
with few stamens, and by the large oblong early fruit. It is very abundant 
in the upland pastures of Worcester county, Massachusetts, and along the 
banks of Branch creek at Sellersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the largest 
species of New England. I have been unable to discover that this handsome 
tree, which has probably always been confounded with Crataegus coccinea, 
has ever been an inhabitant of gardens, unless the figure of Crataegus coc- 
cimea, published in 1835 in the Botanical Magazine ( pl. 7434) was intended 
to represent this species. 
CRATAEGUS COCCINEA Linnaeus.—The name Crataegus coccinea 
was first used by Linnaeus in the first edition of Species Planta- 
rum 1:476. 1753. His description of this species, ‘Crataegus 
