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lace, 5-6.5 cm long and 4.5-5 cm wide, with stout yellow midribs 

 sometimes tinged with rose color in the autum.n, and thin remote 

 primary veins extending to the points of the lobes; petioles stout, 

 wing-margined at the apex, sparingly glandular early in the season, 

 tinged with rose color in the autumn, 2-4 cm in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots usually broader and rounded or cordate at the 

 base, more deeply lobed and sometimes (y-y cm long and wide. 

 Flowers on short slender glabrous pedicels, in compact 3-8, usually 

 5-flowered corymbs, with small linear rose colored bracts and bract- 

 lets; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes short and broad, min- 

 utely serrate near the middle, glabrous, red and glandular at the 

 acuminate apex, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens usually 5 ; anthers 

 .purplish red ; styles 2-4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of 

 long pale hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September, on stout 

 drooping reddisli pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, obovate, full and 

 rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the base, bright orange- 

 red, pruinose, marked by numerous pale dots, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm 

 long, and 8-10 mm wide ; calyx-tube little enlarged, with a broad 

 shallow cavity, and narrow spreading lobes dark red on the upper 

 side below the middle, their tips incurved or more often deciduous 

 from the ripe fruit ; nutlets 2 or 3, narrow and rounded at the 

 ends, prominently ridged on the back, with a broad deeply grooved 

 ridge, light colored, 7-8 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 5-6 m high, with stout stems, very tortuous 

 horizontal or ascending branches, and slender slightly zigzag glab- 

 rous branchlets, dark orange-green when they first appear, becom- 

 ing bright chestnut-brown and marked by dark lenticels in their 

 first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and armed 

 with numerous stout nearly straight bright chestnut-brown shining 

 ultimately dull gray spines 2-3 cm long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar, ( ^ 25, type), September 30, 1904, May 28 

 and September 26, 1905; J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent ( ;^ 29), 

 September 30, 1904; ( ^ 17), September 24, 1904, J. Dunbar, May 

 28, 1905. , ■ ' ' 



Crataegus xanthophylla n. sp. 



Leaves broacUy ovate, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the entire 

 or glandular base, sharply doubly serrate, with straight glandular 

 teeth, and divided above the middle into 3 or 4 small acuminate 

 lobes; nearly half grown when the flowers open at the end of May 

 and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by short 



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