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p13" long, 5-11 wide, rounded or truncate at the serrate base, 
acate or obtuse at the apex, sharply and coarsely serrate or doubly 
serrate, with a pair of prominent notches at the base, and often less 
conspicuous notches above, 6-8 pairs of prominent veins, the lowest 
pair spreading ; petiole terete or nearly so, at first pubescent, at length 
nearly glabrous. Inflorescence a several-flowered somewhat compound 
yme; pedicels strict, erect, at first pubescent, soon glabrate; calyx 
large, cup-shaped, soon glabrate, the oblong glabrate serrate or nearly 
- tatie lobes reflexed after anthesis and often deciduous before the 
fruit falls; flowers about 20™™ wide ; stamens 20; anthers white; styles 
#5. The fruit, which falls in September or October before the leaves, 
borne in simple, few-fruited clusters on nodding or declined pedicels, 
is glabrous, globose, 13-18™" thick, bright glossy red, sparingly 
eMous, and often capped by the persistent reflexed lobes; flesh 
thick, deep yellow, very sweet; seeds 4—5, nearly central in the fruit, 
va somewhat grooved on the narrow back, the lateral faces 
o or ‘ype material was collected by the writer along streams and in pas- 
: ‘northern Illinois. ‘rataegus altrix is evidently related to C. cana- 
Sea an has much larger foliage and fruit. It is more closely related 
C. cibilis, above proposed, of the southern Appalachians. 
: Week obtecta, Nn. sp.—A tree 3~5™ in height, with a short usually 
bark, ey Covered with dark gray or nearly black rough or scaly 
tte Pe Spreading branches which form a round or flat- 
ip, Twigs at first villous with matted gray hairs, at length 
short tho 
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flowers, “ce a nearly simple 5—10-flowered villous cyme; the 
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des calyx large, obconic, villous, the elongated triangular . 
me White. The fruit, borne in usually simple clusters ee 
i: ark red, glabrate except at the apex, capped by the : : - 
Ppear in northern Illinois from the rst to the roth of 
ate 8toup) when the leaves are about half grown, are — 
» Sharply glandular, serrate, spreading after anthesis ; - S 
= ng Villous or nearly glabrous pedicels, is pyriform ; ce 
