224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
pale yellow; styles 5. Fruit in few-fruited clusters, oblong or 
rarely obovate, full and rounded at the ends, bright crimson, 
lustrous, marked by few large dark lenticels, slightly tomentose 
at the ends, particularly at the apex, from 34 to I in. long, 34 
in. thick; calyx-cavity deep but comparatively narrow, the lobes 
small, linear-lanceoiate, coarsely glandular-serrate, red at the 
base on the upper surface, erect and persistent ; flesh yellow, 
thick, dry, subacid; nutlets small in comparison with the size of 
the fruit, thin, rounded or slightly and irregularly ridged on the 
back, % in. long. 
A tree from I5 to 20 ft. in height with a tall straight stem 
covered with pale scaly bark, thick ascending branches and stout 
slightly zigzag branchlets marked by large oblong pale lenticels, 
dark green and covered with long scattered pale hairs when they 
first appear, light orange-brown and very lustrous during their 
first winter, becoming ashy-gray during their second year, and 
unarmed or armed with occasional straight bright chestnut- 
brown spines gradually narrowed from broad bases and usually 
from % to % in. long. Winter-buds about % in. in length, 
nearly as broad as long, dark red, puberulous along the margins 
of the scales. 
Flowers at the Arnold Arboretum about the middle of May. 
Fruit ripens at the end of October and remains on the branches 
for several weeks longer, falling gradually. Late in October or 
early in November the leaves turn bright clear yellow. 
Apparently common in southern Arkansas (B. F. Bush 953); 
but first distinguished from plants in the Arnold Arboretum 
raised from seeds collected in 1883 by George W. Letterman at 
Newport, Ark. 
From Crataegus mollis Scheele, with which it has been confounded, Cra- 
taegus Arkansana differs in the form and particularly in the leathery texture 
of the leaves which when young are villose, not tomentose, in its villose 
corymbs, its oblong late-ripening fruit, the fruit of Crataegus mollis falling 
from the middle of August to the middle of September, and in its unarmed 
or only slightly armed branchlets. Perfectly hardy in the Arnold Arboretum, 
Crataegus Arkansana is unsurpassed late in the autumn in the beauty of its 
large brilliant and abundant fruits which make it one of the most desirable 
garden plants of the genus. : 
