110 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
head, slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets, orange-green when they 
first appear, bright red-brown, lustrous, and marked by occasional oblong 
pale lenticels during their first summer, and dull gray-brown in their second | ) 
year, and unarmed or sparingly armed with stout straight spines 1% tory : 
in. long. ue 
Flowers about the 2oth of April. Fruit ripens late in October 1 ® 
November. a 
Fulton, Arkansas, in rich upland woods, B. F. Bush, April 4, 1900, Ap 2 
and October Igo1. pe 
The large and abundant flowers of Crataegus Bushii, with thei 
white petals and large rose-colored anthers, and its dark lustrous le s 
make this species one of the most beautiful of the thorns of the Crus-gall 
section. From Crataegus Crus-galli of Linnaeus it differs in the number 
Stamens, in the smaller green fruit, in the presence of hairs on the} 
leaves, and in the absence or infrequency of spines. : ae 
Crataegus edita, n. sp.— Leaves oblong-obovate to oval, ae 
or acuminate at the gradually narrowed apex, gradually: seas 
and cuneate at the entire base, coarsely and often doubly ser 
above, with glandular teeth; when the flowers open dark ase 
: lustrous and scabrate above with short rigid pale hairs, 
Pubescent or puberulous below particularly on the slendet 
-tibs and remote slightly raised primary veins; at ma 
coriaceous, dark green, lustrous and slightly roughened 08’ 
upper surface, pale yellow-green and scabrate on the lo 
face, 1% to 2 in. long, % to 1 in. wide, or on vigorous shoo!s 
slightly lobed, more coarsely serrate, 3 in. long, Le 
_ petioles stout, winged above, villose, ultimately F 
Stipules linear, glandular-serrate, villose, caducous. Fl oo 
to % in. in diameter in slightly villose few-flowered sie 
