
1901] NORTH AMERICAN TREES 231 
stipules villose, falcate or on vigorous shoots lunate, coarsely 
glandular-serrate and frequently % in. in length. Flowers 34 
in, in diameter on stout elongated pedicels coated with hoary 
tomentum like the stout branches of the broad compound many- 
flowered cymes becoming lax after anthesis ; bracts and bractlets 
oblong-obovate to lanceolate, finely glandular-serrate, conspicu- 
ous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, tomentose, the lobes broad, 
acute, very coarsely glandular-serrate, villose on both surfaces ; 
stamens 20, filaments slender, elongated; anthers small; styles 
5, slender, surrounded at the base by small tufts of snowy white 
hairs. Fruit in lax drooping clusters, short-oblong to sub- 
globose, scarlet, about ¥y% in.long; calyx-cavity broad and deep, 
the lobes enlarged, coarsely serrate ; flesh thin, yellow, dry, and 
hard; nutlets 5, rounded but not ridged, and occasionally 
obscurely grooved on the back, about ¥ in. long. 
A tree 15 to 20 ft. in height, with spreading branches 
forming a broad open head, and slender slightly zigzag branch- 
lets coated when they first appear with hoary tomentum, becom- 
ing puberulous and dull reddish-brown during the summer and 
pale gray-brown and glabrous during their second year, and 
nearly unarmed or furnished with occasional straight spines I in. 
in length. 
Flowers from the middle to the end of March. Fruit ripens 
after the middle of October. 
“De Bejur a Austin, Avril 1828,” and “Villa d’Austin frio 
de los Brazos, Maio 1828,” /. L. Berlandier, nos. 356 and 267 in 
Herb. Gray; near the banks of the Brazos river at Columbia, 
Texas, B F. Bush, October 1899, March, April, and October 
1900. 
’ Crataegus nitida, n. sp. (Crataegus viridis var. nitida Britton 
& Brown, U7. Fl. 2: 242. 1897).—Glabrous with the exception 
of a few scattered pale caducous hairs on the upper side of the 
midribs of the unfolding leaves. Leaves lanceolate to oblong- 
obovate, acuminate at the apex, abruptly or gradually narrowed 
and cuneate at the entire base, coarsely glandular-serrate above 
with straight or incurved glandular teeth, more or less divided, 
