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A narrow shrub thin in habit, 5-6 m high, with many small stems 

 covered with dark gray scaly bark, spreading and ascending branches, 

 and slender nearly straight branchlets glabrous and orange-green 

 slightly tinged with red when they first appear, becoming red-brown 

 and lustrous during their first season and dull gray-brown the fol- 

 lowing year, and armed with numerous, thin, straight, light chestnut- 

 brown shining, ultimately dull gray spines 4-5 cm in length, per- 

 sistent, very numerous and becoming branched on the old stems. 



Low wet woods, Buffalo; J. Dunbar ( ;^^ 8, type), May 21 and 

 September 29, 1903, September 26, 1905. Not comrrion. 



This handsome and distinct species is named in memory of George 

 W. Clinton (1807-85), a distinguished judge of the Supreme Court 

 of the city of Buffalo and a" critical student of the plants growing 

 in the neighborhood of that city. 



Crataegus oblita n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate to nearly triangular, acuminate, rounded, 

 subcordate or abruptly concave-cuneate at the broad entire or glan- 

 dular base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, 

 and divided often only above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of wide 

 acuminate spreading lobes ; about one third grown when the flowers 

 open the 25th of May and then membranaceous, yellow-green, 

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

 and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dull blue-green, smooth 

 and lustrous on the upper surface, pale bluish green on the lower 

 surface, 5-6.5 cm long and 4.5-5 cm wide, with thin yellow midribs, 

 and slender primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the 

 lobes ; petioles very slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 sparingly villose while young on the upper side, soon glabrous, 

 3-4 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, truncate 

 or rounded at the base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply 

 lobed, often 5.5-6 cm long and wide. Flowers 1.5-1.6 cm in diam- 

 eter, on long slender glabrous pedicels, in lax mostly 4-6-flowered 

 corymbs ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually 

 narrowed from broad bases, wide, acuminate, entire or occasionally 

 slightly toothed near the middle, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 20; anthers rose color ; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base 

 by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the end of Sep- 

 tember, on slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, 

 full and rounded at the apex, slightly narrowed to the rounded base, 

 crimson, pruinose, finally becoming lustrous, marked by large pale 



