116 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
1¥% in. long; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate, villose, | 
Y in. long, caducous; or on vigorous shoots lunate, abruptly 
acuminate, % in. long. Flowers 34 in. in diameter, in compact 
compound many-flowered tomentose corymbs; bracts and bract- 
lets lanceolate or oblanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, vi : 
lose or tomentose, conspicuous, caducous; calyx-tube broadly 
obconic, coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes broad 
acute or acuminate, glandular-serrate, with large dark glands, 
tomentose on the outer surface, villose on the inner surface; 
stamens 20; anthers pale yellow; styles 4 or usually 5. Fruit 08 
puberulous peduncles in drooping few-fruited clusters, obovate 
to oblong, dull dark red, marked by small pale lenticels, usually 
slightly villose or puberulous at the ends, about % in. long an 
¥% in. wide; calyx-cavity broad and shallow, the lobes enlaig™ 
conspicuously glandular-serrate, erect and incurved, © 2 
deciduous before the ripening of the fruit; flesh thick, yellow, 
dry, and mealy; nutlets 4 or usually 5, thin, light brown, img™ 
larly grooved on the back, with broad shallow grooves, % in-10%8 
3 A tree 30 to 40 feet in height with a tall straight trunk 12 to 18 in 
diameter covered with pale slightly furrowed bark, thick branches f 
broad round-topped symmetrical head, and slender slightly zig748 n 
marked by small oblong pale lenticels, coated when they first app” 
dense hoary tomentum, light red-brown and puberulous during Lal ‘ 
season and ultimately pale orange-brown, mostly unarmed oF so 
_ occasional straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown Sf 
lip long oo. - 
ae _ Flowers during the first week of May. Fruit ripens early 
_~ Low moist soil in the neighborhood of streams. : 
___ Belle Isle, in the Detroit river, Michigan, C. S. Sargent, May? 
_ September 25, 1901; woods adjacent to the Calumet river neat 
Illinois, £. 7. fill, May and September 1896 and 1897, Mal 
_ Sargent, September 29, 1901. 7 
oe P bak ly often confounded with Crataegus mollis of Scheele, ¢ 
_ Sera will perhaps be found to be a common tree in souther® 
_ Rorthern Indiana, and in northern and central Illinois. It ™4Y_ 
: _-Buished from Crataegus mollis by its much thinner more oblong 
‘Sordate leaves, by its smaller flowers, and smaller much -_ 
Suaily obovate fruit, the fruit of Crataegus modlis mostly falling © 
of August or early in September. o 
