124 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [resevatt 
glandular-serrate, villose, sometimes yy in. long. Flowers ¥ 
in. in diameter, in sparingly villose many-flowered compouil 
corymbs; bracts and bractlets linear, caducous; calyx-tube mar 
rowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes linear-lanceolate, elongatel, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer surface, ville 
on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis : stamens 20; anthes 
small, rose-color; styles 3 to 5. Fruit on short stout glabrows 
peduncles in erect few-fruited clusters, oblong, full and rounded 
at the ends, bright cherry red, lustrous, marked by 0 jon. 
large dark lenticels, 1% in. long; calyx-cavity broad and shat 
low, the lobes small, nearly triangular, villose on the sis 
surface, mostly deciduous before the ripening of the fruit; fest 
thick, orange-colored; nutlets 3 to 5, thin, broad, only slighty 
ridged on the rounded back, with low rounded ridges, ligt 
brown, =; in. long. : 
A slender tree 25 to 30 feet in height with a tall trunk occasionally 
5 in. in diameter covered with pale gray-brown scaly bark, small ae 
branches forming a narrow head, and slender slightly zigzag 
marked by small oblong scattered pale lenticels, dark olive gree? ® 
ultimately dull light gray, and armed with occasional slender straight 
tnut-brown lustrous spines % to 1 ¥ in. long. es 
| Flowers about April 20th. Fruit ripens the middle of October. 
Lew rich woods near Fulton, Arkansas. Rare. C. S. Sargent 
ees Tg00, W, M. Canby, B. F. Bush, and C, S. Sargent, April 23, at 
Bush, August and October, 1gor. _ 
. This very distinct and handsome thorn somewhat ‘ = 
_ Structure of the flowers and in the form and lobing of many : 
Crataegus apiifolia, from which, however, it differs in the usaal 
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the 
ie villose above as they unfold, nearly fully oe 
flowers open and then light yellow-greem ¥"" 
