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fe) DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE TORREY BULLETIN. 
X. DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
CRATHGUS ARBORESCENS, Ell., is not uncommon in the rich alluvions of the Mississippi River, near St. [4] 
Louis, and probably inhabits the banks of this river and its lower tributaries down to its mouth. It has not been 
ee of late, and seems to be quite rare in herbaria, and is probably not in cultivation. I have not much to add 
liott’s, Torrey and Gray’s and Chapman’s descriptions, but may say that in this ieighebuchoail it is the largest 
seen of the genus, making trunks from 8-12 and, as Mr. Eggert informs me, even 18 inches in diameter, 5-7 feet 
high, fluted or grooved, and with a broad top, rarely bearing any thorns. The leaves, cuneiform at base, undivided 
or, at the end of the shoots, 3-lobed, resemble’ in form those of C. tomentosa, but are smaller, much thinner and 
smoother, even when young, often with soft down in the axils of veins underneath ; flowers in loose corymbs, only 7 
or 8 lines wide ; calyx smooth, neither pubescent nor glandular, with triangular acute lobes ; styles 5 ; drupes de- 
pressed-globular, 4-5 lines thick with 5 (or rarely more) stones grooved on the back, light red or rarely orange- 
colored, persisting throngh winter, when those of our other species, C. coccinea, Crus-galli, subvillosa, and tomentosa, 
drop off.— [Jan. 1882, vol. ix. ] 
Rosa MINUTIFOLIA, n. sp.— A much-branched shrub, 2-4 feet high ; shoots pubescent, densely covered [97] 
with straight or slightly curved, red-brown, bristly, at first pubescent spines, their leaves with broad, divaricately 
auricled stipules, and mostly 5 leaflets ; fertile branches bearing numerous terete, subulate spines, some of the shorter 
and more persistent ones often in pairs ‘vad the branchlets ; leaves fasciculated on short spurs, narrow stipules divar- 
icately auricled, leaflets minute (only 1-2 lines long, the lowest pairs the smallest) oval, simply einige 
pubescent, not glandular ; flowers single, }-1 inch wide, on tomentose, bractless peduncles from between the leaves 
calyx-tube globular, densely setose-hispid, a thick nectariferous ring contracting its opening ; petals suborbieulr 
scarcely emarginate, deep rose-purple or white ; central ovules borne on short stipes ; styles distinct, short, w 
Described from specimens sent by Dr. C. C. Parry and M. E, Jones. A most striking and lovely species, sae 
guished from all other roses by its minute, deeply incised leaflets. The young shoots have larger, distant leaves, with 
fewer, but larger leaflets, the terminal one the largest, sometimes 4 or 5 lines long ; fragrance faint. This species is 
quite peculiar among its American congeners, and even among the roses of the Old World, so that it is difficult to 
determine its true position. In aspect and habit it comes nearest to the Pimpinellifolie on account of its single [98] 
bractless flowers, its numerous acicular spines, and its small leaves ; but it recedes in its pinnatifid calyx-lobes. — 
[Aug. 1882, vol. ix.] 
Through the kind exertions of Miss F. Fish of Sauzal, mature fruit of this interesting species, described in [127 
the August number of the Buiuersy, has been obtained and is being widely distributed, so that we may ho 
soon to see it in cultivation. The fruit is globose, crowned with the persistent erect calyx-lobes, deeply red-brown, 
bristly-hispid ; seeds generally few, bearing the woolly, at length deciduous style. 
In the description of the flower it ought to have been mentioned that the outer calyx-lobes are pinnatifid, which 
however is alluded to at the end of the article. The locality is Sauzal, not Sanyal, as printed. — [Oct. 1882, vol. ix.] 
From Warson’s List or Patmer’s Piants Conircrep rs 8S. W. Texas anp Norra Mexico (PRocrEDINGs OF THE 
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND Sciences, Vou. XVIII. 1883). 
EPHEDRA PEDUNCULATA, Engelm. mss. E. asPERA, Engelm. mss. [157] 
