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acuminate, glandular-serrate, with small dark red stipitate 

 glands, glabrous on the outer, pubescent on the inner face, 

 reflexed after anthesis ; stamens lo; anthers bright reddish- 

 purple; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by tufts of pale 

 hairs. Fruit on slender glabrous pedicels in drooping clusters, 

 pyriform to globose-pvriform, crimson or purplish, marked by 

 many small pale dots, slightly pruinose, 1.2-1.7^"^ l<^rig, 1.2- 

 1.5C™ wide; calyx small, with an arrow deep cavity and reflexed 

 and appressed or erect and incurved serrate lobes, dark red on 

 the upper side below the middle, often wanting from the ripe 

 fruit ; flesh thin, yellow, juicy, acid and edible ; nutlets 4 or 

 5, thin, acute at the ends, rounded and slightly grooved or 

 obscurely ridged on the back, 6 -7°^"' long. 



A tree 5-8"' in height with a trunk 1.5-2"' long and i-i .5''™ in diameter, 

 covered with dark gray or blackish bark, separating into thin plate-like 

 scales, numerous branches forming a round-topped head and slender zigzag 

 branchlets, dark yellow-green and marked by many small pale lenticels when 

 they first appear, dark dull reddish-brown at the end of their first season, 

 olive gray in their second year, and ultimately dark gray-brown, and armed 

 with small straight light red-brown shining spines usually only about 1.8 '^"' in 

 length; winter-buds subglobose to short-oblong, large and conspicuous, 

 2-4."""^ in diameter, covered with dark chestnut-brown lustrous scales slightly 

 scarious on the margins. Flowers early in May. Fruit ripens from the 

 8th to the 15th of September and soon falls. 



Woods and river banks in dry clay soil, Maywood, September 1899, May 

 igoo, September igoi. May and September 1902, E. /. Hill and C, S, 

 Sa?'gent, September 1901. 



Stamens tisnally 20. 



Crataegus tarda, n. sp. — Leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 cuneate or rounded or rarely truncate at the wide base, sharply 

 often doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth and divided 

 into 4 or 5 pairs of short broad acute lobes ; about half-grown 

 when the flowers open and then membranaceous, pale green more 

 or less tinged with red and roughened above by short pale hairs, 

 glabrous below, at maturity thin but firm to subcoriaceous, dark 

 bluish green and smooth or scabrate on the upper surface, pale 

 on the lower surface, 4-7*^"^ lc>ng, 4-6^°^ wide, sometimes broader 

 than long, with slender prominent midribs and thin but con- 

 spicuous primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the 



