﻿400 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [June 



corymbs; bracts and bractlets linear to oblong-ovate, acuminate, 

 glandular and usually persistent until after the flowers open ; 

 calyx tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes wide, acuminate 

 coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, villose on the 

 inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 20; anthers pink; 

 styles 2 or 3, usually 2, surrounded at the base by small tufts of 

 white hairs. Fruit drooping on slender glabrous pedicels, in few 

 or many- fruited clusters, subglobose, orange-red, marked by 

 occasional large pale dots, becoming crimson and lustrous when 

 fully ripe, 8-10°'"' in diameter; calyx prominent with a broad 

 deep cavity and spreading and closely appressed lobes ; flesh 

 thin, yellow, soft and succulent ; nuts usually 2, full and rounded 

 at the ends, ^-^'j'^^ io^Ri often 5™™ wide, prominently ridged on 

 the back, with a broad deeply grooved ridge, the ventral cavi- 

 ties very oblique, broad and deep. 



A shrub or small tree sometimes flowering when not more than i"^ in height, 

 with rather stout nearl}- straight branchlets, light orange-green and marked 

 by small pale lenticels when they first appear, bright reddish brown and lus- 

 trous at the end of their first season, dark reddish brown the following year, 

 and unarmed or armed with occasional stout nearly straight dark purple 

 shining spines about 2.5^'" in length. Flowers from the 20th to the end of May. 

 Fruit ripens from the first to the middle of October. 



Pastures, Mokena, September and October i goo, May and June igoi, 

 bluff bank of Thorn creek, Chicago Heights, May and October 1901, E.J. 

 Hill\ shores of Lake Zurich, C. S, Sargent, September rgoo; Milton Town- 

 ship, Du Page county, B, T. Gaidt, May and September igo3. 



Anthers pale yellow. 



Crataegus laxiflora, n. sp. — Leaves obovate to ovate-oblong 

 on leading shoots, acuminate, acute or broad and rounded at the 

 apex, mostly gradually narrowed from near the middle to the 

 rounded or cuneate entire base, sharply and doubly serrate 

 above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and divided toward the 

 apex into 3 or 4 pairs of short acute lobes; about half-grown 

 when the flowers open and then membranaceous, dark yellow- 

 green, lustrous, smooth and glabrous with the exception of 

 a few deciduous hairs near the base of the midrib on the 

 upper surface, light yellow-green and glabrous on the lower 

 surface; at maturity coriaceous, dark green and very lustrous 



