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and bractlets conspicuous, oblong-obovate, acute, or rounded at 

 the apex, coarsely glandular-serrate, tinged with red; calyx-tube » 



broadly obconic, the lobes elongated, abruptly narrowed from ^ 



broad bases, enlarged, foliaceous and glandular-laciniate above 

 the middle, mostly entirely below, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens lo; anthers pale yellow; styles 3 or 4. Fruit subglobose 

 to short-oblong, often somewhat narrowed at the base, when 

 fully grown at first green, then russet or copper color, and at 

 maturity sometimes dull red, marked by few large dark dots, l^" 

 long, 8 or 9"""^ wide; calyx prominent, with a broad shallow cav- 

 ity and spreading lobes coarsely serrate above the middle and 

 often wanting from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, dry, yellow-green; 

 nutlets 3 or 4, thick, rounded at the ends, prominently ridged 

 on the broad rounded back, 7-8"''" lc)ng. 



A low-branched stoloniferous shrub sometimes 2™ high, with slender 

 branchlets, green tinged with red when they first appear, bright red-brown, 

 lustrous and marked by numerous large oblong pale lenticels during their 

 first season, and dull reddish-brown in their second year, and sparingly 

 armed with straight stout bright red-brown lustrous spines 3-4^^™ loiig» o^ 

 unarmed. Flowers about the 20th of May. Fruit ripens early in October. 



Vacant lots, Wilmington, Delaware, September and October 1899, May 

 1900, W, M. Canby, 



PUNCTATAE. 



Crataegus punctata Jacquin. — Banks of Brandy wine creek 

 below Smith's Bridge, May 1869; banks of White Clay creek 

 below Stanton, 1902, W. M. Ca7iby, 



MOLLES. 



Crataegus Tatnalliana, n. sp. — Leaves ovate to oval, acute, 



broadly cuneate, or on leading shoots rounded or rarely cordate 

 at the entire base, divided above into short acute lobes and 

 coarsely and usually doubly glandular-serrate ; as they unfold 

 light green and covered above with short lustrous white hairs, 

 rather paler below and villose along the midribs and primary 

 veins; at maturity membranaceous, dark yellow-green and scab- 

 rate on the upper surface, paler and glabrous on the lower sur- 

 face with the exception of a few scattered hairs on the slender 

 yellow midribs and 5 or 6 pairs of thin primary veins extending 



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