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20th of j\Iay and then thin, smooth and yellow-green above and. 

 pale blue-green below, and at maturity thin but firm, dark dull blue- 

 green on the upper surface and pale on the lower surface, 5-7 cm 

 long and 4-5 cm wide, with prominent yellow midribs, and slender 

 primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles 

 slender, wing-margined to below the middle, glandular, with per- 

 sistent glands, often rose color in the autumn, 1.5-2 cm in length; 

 leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, rounded at the broad base, 

 more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed and sometimes 8-9 

 cm long and broad, with stout broadly winged conspicuously glandu- 

 lar petioles. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in diameter, on slender elongated 

 pedicels, in loose usually 5- or 6-flowered long-branched corymbs ; 

 calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire ; 

 stamens 9 or 10; anthers dark red; styles usually 4, surrounded at 

 the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening about 

 the ist of October, on stout reddish pedicels, in few-fruited droop- 

 ing clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, 

 lustrous, marked by many small dark dots, 1.5-1.7 cm in diameter; 

 calyx little enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, and closely ap- 

 pressed lobes persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh thick, yellow, dry 

 and mealy ; nutlets usually 4, narrowed at the ends, rounded at the 

 base, ridged on the back, with a broad grooved ridge, light colored, 

 6-7 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub 4-6 m high, with numerous small stems covered with dark 

 gray scaly bark, small spreading branches, and slender zigzag 

 branchlets dark orange-green when they first appear, becoming 

 bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous in their first season and 

 dull red-brown the following year, and armed with many slender 

 slightly curved purple shining spines 3.5-4 cm long, persistent and 

 very numerous on old stems. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (:^ S^ type), October 6, 1902, May 21 and 

 September 29, 1903, J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent, September 24, 

 1904. 



Crataegus aridula n. sp. 



Glabrous. Leaves ovate, acuminate, cuneate or concave-cuneate 

 at the entire base, sharply doubly serrate above, with straight gland- 

 ular teeth, and divided into 5 or 6 pairs of narrow acuminata 

 spreading lobes; nearly full grown when the ilowcrs open during 

 the first week of June and then thin, dark yellow-green, smooth 

 above and pale below, and at maturity thin, dark bluish green on 

 the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 4-5 cm long and 



