230 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
spreading, usually deciduous before the ripening of the fruit ; 
flesh thin, light-colored, hard, and dry, shrivelling on the 
branches; nutlets 5, rounded and usually ridged on the back, 
about ¥ in. long. 
A tree 25 ft. in height, with a tall trunk from 6 to 8 in. in 
diameter covered with pale closely appressed scales becoming 
dark brown near the base of old individuals, and numerous 
upright branches often forming a broad symmetrical head, and 
slender slightly zigzag branchlets coated when they first appear 
with hoary deciduous tomentum, light reddish-brown and more 
or less villose during their first season, becoming rather darker 
during their second year and ultimately pale ashy-gray, and 
armed with numerous stout straight or slightly curved chestnut- 
brown lustrous spines usually from 1 to 1% in. in length. 
Flowers toward the end of March. Fruit ripens after the 
middle of October and sometimes does not entirely fall until the 
following spring. 
Sandy bottom-lands of the Brazos river, usually in open 
forests of live oaks at Columbia, Texas, 5. F. Bush, November 
1899; Canby, Bush, and Sargent, March 1900; Bush, April and 
October 1goo. 
~ Crataegus Berlandieri, n. sp—-Leaves oblong-obovate to 
oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, gradually narrowed below 
from near the middle and cuneate and entire at the base, irregu- 
larly divided into numerous acute or acuminate or, on vigorous 
shoots, rounded lobes, coarsely and often doubly serrate with 
broad spreading orincurved gland-tipped teeth; at the flowering 
time coated above with short pale soft caducous hairs and below 
with thick hoary tomentum, and at maturity rather thin but firm 
in texture, glabrous, dark green and very lustrous on the upper 
surface, pale and pubescent below, usually about 3 in. long and 2 
in. wide, and on leading shoots often 4 or 5 in. long and from 
2% to 2 in. wide, with slender midribs and remote primary veins 
slightly impressed above and conspicuous secondary veins and 
reticulate veinlets; petioles stout, usually more or less winged 
above, tomentose, ultimately pubescent, from %4 to % in. long; 

