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384 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [june 



and bractlets linear to linear-oblong, acuminate, finely glandular- 

 serrate, turning red before falling, mostly persistent until after 

 the flowers open; calyx tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradu- 

 ally narrowed from the base, wide, acuminate, coarsely glandular- 

 serrate, glabrous on the outer, slightly villose on the inner 

 surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 20\ anthers pink: styles 

 3-5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit on slender rigid erect pedicels in few-fruited clusters, nar- 

 row, obovate at first when fully grown, becoming finally short- 

 obovate to globose, full and rounded at the ends, dark crimson 

 marked by few large pale dots, about i.G'^^^long and 1.4^"^ wide; 

 calyx sessile, with a broad shallow cavity and slightly enlarged 

 erect and incurved lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; 

 flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets three to five, usually 

 four, thin, high and often gibbous in the middle, abruptly nar- 

 rowed to the acute ends, usually prominently ridged, with a 

 broad deeply grooved ridge, or rounded and slightly grooved on 

 the back, about 8"'''' long. 



A bushy tree 6-^]^ in height with slender nearly straight branchlets, dark 

 orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, soon becoming dull 

 orange or reddish brown and marked by many small pale lenticels, and 

 darker grayish brown the following year, and slightly armed with stout 

 straight or slightly curved dark red-brown spines about l-l^'^ in length. 

 Flow^ers the middle of May. Fruit ripens from the loth to the middle of Sep- 

 tember. 



Borders of woods, in gravelly soil, Glendon Park, E. J. Hill, May, June, 

 and September 1901. 



Crataegus Hillii, n. sp. — Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, 

 rounded or rarely cuneate at the broad entire base, coarsely 

 doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly 

 divided into numerous short acuminate lateral lobes; when they 

 unfold coated above with short lustrous white hairs and densely 

 tomentose below particularly on the midribs and veins; about 

 one-quarter grown when the flowers open and then roughened 

 above by short hairs and still villose below; at maturity thin but 

 firm in texture, light yellow-green and scabrate on the upper 

 surface, pale yellow-green on the lower surface, 6-8 """ long, 

 ^_5cm ^vide, with slender midribs often slightly hairy near the 



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