KEPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I906 21 



Crataegus cognata Sarg. 

 Colemans Station, Dutchess co. and Dykemans, Putnam co. ]\Iay 

 and September. Mr Eggleston had previously found it in the 

 latter locality. 



Crataegus deltoides Ashe 

 Moores Mills. May and October. W. W. Eggleston. The 

 broadly ovate or deltoid leaves constitute a prominent feature of 

 this species and are suggestive of the specific name. 



Crataegus habereri n. sp. Sarg. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute, rounded, subtruncate or abruptly 

 cordate at the wide entire or glandular base, finely doubly serrate 

 above, with straight glandular teeth, and divided usually only above 

 the middle into four or five pairs of small acuminate spreading 

 lobes, nearly half grown when the flowers open about the middle 

 of May and then membranaceous, light yellow green and roughened 

 above by short white hairs and pale and glabrous below, and at 

 maturity thin, dark yellow green and scabrate on the upper surface, 

 light yellow green on the lower surface, 4.5-6.5 cm long and nearly 

 as wide ; with slender midribs, and their primary veins extending" 

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

 margined at the apex, at first slightly villose, soon becoming gla- 

 brous, sparingly glandular while young, 2.5-3.5 cm in length ; leaves 

 on vigorous shoots truncate or rounded at the base, more coarsely 

 serrate and more deeply lobed, often 7-8 cm long and 6-7 cm wide. 

 Flowers 1.4-1.5 cm in diameter, on slender slightly hairy pedicels, 

 in broad 5-8-flowered corymbs; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 

 glabrous, or slightly hairy near the base, the lobes slender, acu- 

 minate, glandular serrate, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on 

 the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 10 ; anthers dark 

 rose color; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 

 pale tomentum. Fruit ripening from the first to the middle of 

 September, on glabrous reddish pedicels, in few-fruited drooping 

 clusters, oval to obovate, crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale 

 dots ; calyx prominent, with a deep wide cavity, and incurved hori- 

 zontal or recurved lobes dark red above toward the base and slightly 

 hairy on the upper surface, their tips often deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thin, dark yellow, soft and succulent; nutlets 3-5, 

 acute at the ends, slightly ridged and irregularly grooved on the 

 back, 7-8 mm long and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-5 m high, with small stems, wide spreading flexuous 



