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remarkably large winter buds, by its stout thorns, dark usually broadly oval 
leaves, and by the size of the fruit, which, with the exception of that of 
Crataegus tomentosa, is smaller than the fruit of the other species of this 
group whose flowers have twenty stamens. 
Crataegus blanda, n. sp.—Leaves oval to rhombic, acute or 
acuminate, occasionally slightly lobed toward the apex, broadly 
cuneate or concave cuneate at the entire base. coarsely crenulate- 
serrate above the middle, with glandular teeth; coated as they 
unfold with soft pale hairs; fully grown when the flowers open 
and then glabrous with the exception of large tufts of snow 
white tomentum in the axils of the primary veins, membrana- 
ceous, dark green and lustrous above, I y to 2 in. long and I to 
1% in. wide; at maturity subcoriaceous, yellow-green and lus- 
‘tous above, pale below with slender midribs deeply impressed 
onthe upper side and two or three pairs of slender primary 
ves extending very obliquely toward the apex of the leaf; on 
___ leading shoots often broadly ovate, full and rounded at the base, 
_— deeply lobed above the middle, 2 to 2% in. long, 1% to 
. in. wide; petioles slender, slightly winged above, villose at 
i" upper side, soon glabrous, 3 to I in. long; stipules 
_“*tanceolate, entire, from % to Y% in. long, caducous. : Flow- 
ay og diameter, on slender elongated pedicels, in broad 
ae « many-flowered compound glabrous corymbs; bracts and 
linear, entire, caducous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 
the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acu- 
-Sntire or obscurely dentate, glabrous, reflexed after 
on stamens 20; anthers small, canary-yellow; styles 5. 
er tented drooping clusters, subglobose to short- 
. ee eed, marked by few pale lenticels, 4% in. 
aaa:.. ;., > * Prominent, with a broad deep cavity and 
ae lobes’ mostly deciduous before the ripening of the — 
a “ thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 5, thin, pale — 
ee ly Srooved on the back, 53, in. long. i 
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brown or nearly black fissured scaly bark, stout ascending 
branchlets marked by large pale scattered lenticels, at 
eet in height with a tall trunk 10 or 12 in. in diameter 
broad open irregular head, and nearly straight slender _ 
