114 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
ring at the summit of the short calyx-tube; flesh very thia, 
light green, dry and hard; nutlets thin, rounded, irregularly 
grooved on the back, about ¥ in. long. 
A tree 25 to 30 feet in height with a tall trunk 10 or 12 in. in diameter, 
covered with dark red-brown scaly bark, stout wide-spreading branches, 
forming a broad symmetrical round-topped head, and slender, straight, 0 
somewhat zigzag branchlets marked by occasional small, pale lenticels, dark 
green tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dull reddish-brow® 
during their first season, and gray or light reddish-brown during their seco’ 
year, and armed with straight or slightly curved, slender, bright chestnut: 
brown, lustrous spines, rarely more than I ¥% in. in length. - 
Flowers about the 2oth of April. Fruit ripens and falls early in October. 
: Low meadows, in rich moist soil near Rome, Georgia ; not rare. : 
Canby and C. S. Sargent, May 6, 1899; C. S. Sargent, April 22 and October 
7, 1900. : 
Crataegus sordida, n. sp.— Leaves rhomboidal, acute, 
obovate, and rarely rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed 
Frias bright red in the autumn; stipules linear, acum 
glandular, with minute red glands, caducous. Flowers! ° 
'n. in diameter, fragrant, in few-flowered, compact, comP 
ne after anthesis ; petals dull, dirty white; stamens Pe 
= oe, rose-color; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base 
