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villose pedicels, in few-fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong to 

 obovate, full and rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the 

 base, crimson, lustrous, marked by occasional dots, about i cm 

 long and 8 mm wide; calyx little enlarged, with a short tube, a 

 narrow deep cavity, and spreading or reflexed glandular serrate 

 lobes pubescent on the upper side and often deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thin, dry and mealy, yellow or orange color; nutlets 

 2 or 3, full and rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad 

 often grooved ridge, 8-9 mm long and 4-5 mm wide. 



A tree 2-3 m high, with a short stem 5-10 cm in diameter, wide- 

 spreading mostly horizontal branches forming a flat topped head, 

 the stout zigzag branchlets bright orange color and coated with long 

 matted white hairs when they first appear, becoming glabrous, 

 orange or reddish brown and lustrous during their first season and 

 ashy gray the following year, and armed with many slender straight 

 or slightly curved bright purplish or chestnut-brown shining spines 

 often pointing toward the base of the branch and 4.5-7 cm l° n g- 



Near Thompson Lake, Helderberg region, Charles H. Peck (J76n, 

 tyP e )> June and September 1903, 1904. 



Easily distinguished from the other northern species of this 

 group by the nearly white anthers, by the exceedingly villose 

 pedicels, the villose pubescent underside of the midribs and veins, 

 and from several southern and southwestern species with hairy in- 

 florescence, by the shape of the leaves and the character of the fruit. 



PUNCTATAE 



Stamens 20 



Anthers rose color or yellow 



Crataegus punctata Jacquin 



Hort. Vind. i. 10, t. 28 (1770).— Sargent, Silva N. Am. iv. 103, t. 184; 

 Man. 389, f. 308. 



North Albany, West Albany, Menands, Albia, Greenbush, North 

 Greenbush, Watervliet and Sand Lake. Very common Charles 

 H. Peck. 



Crataegus punctata var. aurea Aiton 



Hort. Kew. ii. 170 (1789). 



North Albany, West Albany, Greenbush, North Greenbush, Me- 

 nands, Charles H. Peck. 



Crataegus punctata var. canescens Britt. 

 Bui. Torrey Bot. Club, xxi. 231 (1894).— Sargent, Man. 389. 

 North Greenbush, Charles H. Peck. 



