REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1905 5 1 



Anthers pale pink 

 Crataegus eatoniana n. sp. Sarg. 



Leaves ovate to obovate, acute and often short-pointed at the 

 apex, gradually or rarely abruptly narrowed to the concave cuneate 

 entire base, finely doubly serrate, with straight or incurved glandu- 

 lar teeth, and usually slightly divided into four or five pairs of 

 narrow acuminate lateral lobes, nearly fully grown when the flowers 

 open the middle of May and then membranaceous, light yellow 

 green, smooth and glabrous on the upper surface with the exception 

 of a slight pubescence along the midribs and veins, pale and slightly 

 hairy along the midribs and veins below, at maturity thin but firm 

 in texture, dark bluish green and glabrous above, pale yellow green 

 and almost glabrous below, 5.5-8 cm long and 4.5-5.5 cm wide, 

 with stout yellow midribs and slender primary veins extending 

 obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined 

 at the apex, slightly grooved and puberulous on the upper side, 

 becoming glabrous, 1.5-3 cm i n length. Flowers about 1.5 cm 

 in diameter, on stout glabrous pedicels, in wide many -flowered 

 corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves, with 

 obovate to linear obovate or linear bracts and bractlets glandular 

 serrate toward the apex and persistent till after the flowers open; 

 calyx tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, red and 

 glandular at the acuminate apex, entire or occasionally sparingly 

 glandular toward the base, glabrous on the outer and slightly hairy 

 on the inner surface; stamens 16 to 20; anthers pale pink; styles 

 two or usually three. Fruit on slender drooping red pedicels, in 

 usually 5 to 10-fruited clusters, short-oblong to depressed-glo- 

 bose, full and rounded at the apex, slightly narrowed and round- 

 ed at the base, bright cherry-red, lustrous, marked by small pale 

 dots, 1. 2-1. 4 cm long and 1-1.2 cm wide; calyx prominent, with a 

 broad deep cavity and spreading appressed lobes mostly deciduous 

 from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, dry and mealy, tinged with red; nut- 

 lets two or three, full and rounded at the apex, ridged on the back, 

 with a broad rounded ridge, 6-7 mm long and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with many erect stems covered with dark 

 brown bark and spreading into thickets, stout branches, the 

 lower spreading, the upper ascending, and slender nearly 

 straight branchlets marked by oblong pale lenticels, dark orange 

 color and slightly hairy when they first appear, soon glabrous, 

 bright red brown and lustrous during their first winter and dull 

 gray brown the following year, and armed with slender straight or 



