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cies, while its fruit is more like that of the latter, especially in 

 size. The newly described species is peculiar in that it bears 

 smaller fruit than any other North American cornel. Hereto- 

 fore, Cornns microcarpa of the southeastern Gulf States was char- 

 acteristic in bearing the smallest fruit, but the drupes of C. 

 Priceae average about one third smaller and have a very differ- 

 ently shaped stone. — John K. Small. 



A new Crataegus from Washington. — Crataegus Piperi. 

 A much branched shrub 2—3 m. high. Bark of older stems light 

 gray, that of the younger twigs brown, the lenticels conspicuous, 

 the branches of the season and the inflorescence strigose-villous ; 

 thorns 3—5 cm. long, dark brown, shining, straight or nearly so, 

 rather slender, somewhat reflexed : petioles 1.5-2 cm. long, bear- 

 ing several glands ; leaf-blades broadly oval in outline, sparingly 

 strigose on both sides, dark and glossy above, paler and dull be- 

 neath, incised and doubly serrate at and above the middle, but 

 merely serrate on the cuneate base ; teeth sharp and gland-tip- 

 ped ; apex short-acuminate : corymbs 4- 12-fiowered; pedicels and 

 hypanthium densely villous : sepals about 4 mm. long, promi- 

 nently glandular-dentate : fruit spherical or nearly so, about 1 2 mm. 

 in diameter, coral-red, sparingly pubescent even when mature. 



On springy gravelly hillsides, Pullman, Washington, C. V. 

 Piper, no. 1535 (type specimen in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden). Professor Piper writes that the foliage 

 turns dull brown in autumn. — N. L. Britton. 



Circaea Fruit devoid of hooked Bristles.* — Several speci- 

 mens of a smooth-fruited Circaea were found July 29, 1900, when 

 a small party of us were collecting in some low woods, border- 

 ing Ten-mile creek, about three miles west of Toledo, Ohio. 

 These plants enjoyed the same rich alluvial deposits with C. Lu- 

 tetiana, which appeared in abundance. 



Careful observation was necessary to detect the smooth-fruited 

 form, and it seems likely that this plant is much more common 



* One of the specimens mentioned by Mr. Burglehaus was exhibited to the Club at 

 the-meeting of February 12, 190T. It is interesting as necessitating a modification of 

 the characters of Circaea, the fruits being entirely smooth and glabrous. Otherwise, as 

 Mr. Burglehaus remarks, the plant is essentially identical with the North American 

 C. Ltitetiana ; it also matches a specimen received by Dr. Torrey from Agardh, col- 

 lected in Scania, Sweden, and named C. intermedia, but the true C. intermedia 

 Ehrh., from Central Europe, is evidently different. — N. L. BRITTON. 



