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head, or on young trees upright and forming an open irregular 
crown, and comparatively slender slightly zigzag branchlets, 
dark bronze-green and villose when they first appear, soon 
becoming dull reddish-brown, lighter reddish-brown in_ their 
second season, and ultimately pale ashy-gray, and often unarmed, 
or armed with occasional slender nearly straight bright chestnut- 
brown spines usually about 2 in. in length. 
Flowers the middle of March. Fruit ripens toward the end 
of October. 
Rich bottom-lands, central and western Texas. 
Long confounded with Crataegus mollis Scheele (see Gray, Proc. Phil. 
Acad. 1867: 163), it can be distinguished from that species by the shape of 
the thinner leaves which are nearly always cuneate and only rarely cordate 
at the base even on the most vigorous shoots, and are usually less deeply 
lobed and much more coarsely serrate, by the smaller flowers in fewer- 
flowered more tomentose cymes, by the late-ripening fruit, and by the color 
of the branchlets and their more numerous spines. Crataegus mollis appar- 
ently does not extend south of central Missouri and middle Tennessee, being 
replaced in southern Missouri and Arkansas by several forms of the Mollis 
group which are still imperfectly known. 
g Crataegus pedicellata, n. sp.— Leaves broadly ovate, oval, or 
occasionally obvate or rhomboidal, acute or acuminate, broadly 
cuneate or rounded, and on vigorous leading shoots occasionally 
truncate or slightly cordate at the base, divided above the middle 
into four or five pairs of short acuminate lobes, coarsely and 
often doubly serrate, except toward the base, with spreading 
glandular teeth; in early spring roughened above by short rigid 
pale hairs and at maturity membranaceous, dark rich green and 
scabrate on the upper surface, pale and glaucous below, from 3 
to 4 in. long, from 2 to 3 in wide, with slender midribs slightly 
impressed above and thin remote primary veins arching to the 
points of the lobes; petioles slender, only slightly grooved, vil- 
lose but ultimately glabrous, obscurely glandular with minute scat- 
tered dark glands, from 1 ¥% to 2in. in length; stipules of leading 
shoots strongly falcate, stipitate, coarsely glandular-serrate, y 
in. long. Flowers % in. in diameter on slender-elongated 
pedicels, in loose lax rather few-flowered slender-branched 


