﻿434 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [junk 



at base, glabrous, with five or six pairs of prominent veins, sharply 

 doubly serrate except at the base; petiole 2*^"' long, winged above by 

 thedecurrent blade. Flowers appear the first week in June, about 20"'"" 

 wide, in ample wide-spreading glabrate or sparingly pubescent corymbs ; 

 calyx tube cup-shaped, glabrous, the narrow triangular glabrate acute 

 lobes twice or thrice the length of the tube, deeply glandular serrate, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens large, 10, anthers pale violet with 

 darker edges; styles 2-3. Fruit in large drooping clusters, bright 

 scarlet, globose, about i '''" in diameter, capped by the long spreading 

 or reflexed calyx lobes, ripening in September; seeds generally 3, 

 lateral faces grooved. 



Crataegus hystricina has been found only along the rocky bank of the 

 Housatonic river in Southern Connecticut, where it has been collected and 

 studied by Dr. E, //. Eames, It is evidently closely related to Csucculenta, 

 from which it is well separated by the larger foliage, larger flowers, fewer 

 stamens and different habit. 



Amelanchier obovalis, n. sp, Mespilus Canadensis obovalis Michx. FL 

 1:291; Crataegus Canadensis obovalis Sarg. Silva 4:128 in part. 

 A shrub g-is"^™ high, with numerous erect virgate shoots, or a small 

 tree with short ascending branches attaining a maximum height 

 of about 4.5 "'. Leaves elliptic, rounded at both ends, 2-3'™ wide, 

 3-5 ^"^ long, on unfolding densely tomentose beneath, at length nearly 

 glabrous but pale, finely serrulate or nearly entire: petioles short, 

 pubescent. Flowers appearing from the first to the middle of April 

 when the leaves are less than half grown, in short (3-5''"' long) 5-9- 

 flowered, strict, compact, pubescent racemes ; pedicels 2-9""" long at 

 time of flowering, elongate in fruit, especially the lower ones, which 

 become 2-3'™ long; petals oblong, 6-8™" long; calyx broadly cup- 

 shaped, the lobes erect or ascending, short and broad, pubescent, 

 greatly enlarging after anthesis and becoming glabrate. Fruit when 

 ripe in June red-purple, subglobose, 7-9""™ in diameter. 



This plant is not uncommon along the edges of swamps on loose soils 

 from Smithfield, N. C, southward along the coast to Augusta, Ga., and 

 according to Sargent (Silva 4: 128 seq.) to Mobile. Ala. In leaf form and 

 inflorescence, it is most closely related to A. spicata (Lam.) Dec, from 

 which, however, it is well separated. 



Amelanchier obovalis was found by the elder Michaux on the coast or 

 Carolina. Torrey later transferred the name to A. botryapium and was 

 followed by Sargent, who, while having knowledge of the existence and dis- 

 tribution of the coast plant, confused it with A. botryapium and associated 

 both plants under the same name as a variety of A. canadensis med. 



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