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Crataegus vegeta, n. sp. — Leaves elliptical, acuminate, gradu- 

 ally narrowed and concave-cuneate at the entire base, finely often 

 doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly 

 divided above the middle into numerous short acute lobes ; 

 nearly fully grown when the flowers open and then membra- 

 naceous, dark yellow-green and roughened above by short rigid 

 pale hairs, and densely pubescent below; at maturity thin but 

 firm in texture, dark dull green and scabrate on the upper sur- 

 face, pale and pubescent on the lower surface along the slender 

 midribs and 5 or 6 pairs of thin primary veins arching obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes, 7.5-10^"^ long, 4.5-6^"^ wide; petioles 

 slender, broadly wing-margined at the apex by the decurrent 

 base of the leaf-blades, grooved, villose on the upper side early 

 in the season, becoming glabrous and rose color in the autumn, 

 1.5-2^"" in length; stipules linear, acuminate, rose color, small, 

 caducous. Flowers 1.5-1.8^"^ in diameter on long slender villose 

 pedicels, in usually io-i2-flovvered thin-branched hairy compound 

 corymbs ; bracts and bractlets linear to linear-obovate, acute, 

 glandular, becoming reddish before falling, mostly persistent 

 until after the flowers open ; calyx tube narrowly obconic, villose 

 like the slender acuminate glandular-serrate lobes, reflexed after 

 anthesis; stamens 20; anthers small, light pink or red; styles 2 

 or 3, usually 3. Fruit on slender elongated rigid slightly villose 

 pedicels, in few-fruited erect clusters, subglobose, scarlet, lus- 

 trous, marked by small, pale dots, 9-10"'"' in diameter; calyx 

 prominent with a short tube, a narrow deep cavity, and spreading 

 reflexed serrate lobes; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nut- 

 lets 2 or 3, full and rounded at the ends, 6""™ long and nearly 

 as broad, prominently ridged on the back, with a high grooved 

 ridge, the dorsal cavities broad and deep. 



A tree 7-8 "^ in height with a tall straight trunk sometimes 2^"" in diam- 

 eter, stout wide-spreading branches forming a symmetrical round-topped 

 head, and very slender nearly straight branchlets light orange-green and 

 marked by many large pale lenticels when they first appear, bright red-brown 

 and lustrous at the end of their first season, darker the following year, and 

 unarmed or sparingly armed with slender nearly straight dark purple shining 

 spines about 4^^ in length; winter-buds ovate to subglobose, light chestnut 

 color, lustrous, 4-5 ^"^ long, their inner scales accrescent, bright red and very 



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