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more deeply lobed, often 5 cm long and wide, with foliaceous lunate 

 coarsely serrate persistent stipules. Flowers 1.3-1.5 cm in diameter, 

 on slender glabrous pedicels, in very compact mostly 5- or 6-flow- 

 ered corymbs, with linear glandular bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, acuminate, nearly 

 entire, red and glandular at the apex, reflexed after anthesis; 

 stamens 5-8 ; anthers dark rose color ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the 

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

 of September, on short dark red pedicels, in usually 1-3-fruited 

 drooping clusters, subglobose to ovate, pruinose, marked by many 

 small pale dots, 1-3 cm long, i-i.i cm in diameter ; calyx prominent, 

 with a short tube, a small deep cavity, and spreading minutely 

 serrate persistent lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle ; 

 flesh thick, yellow, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, narrowed and 

 acute at the ends or rounded at the base, rounded or slightly ridged 

 on the back, with a low ridge, light colored, 6-"] mm long, and 4 mm 

 wide. 



A thin intricately branched shrub sometimes 4 m high, with ir- 

 regularly spreading stems covered at the base with dark gray bark, 

 and slender glabrous branchlets dark orange-green tinged with red 

 when they first appear, becoming in their first season bright chestnut- 

 brown, lustrous and marked by numerous dark lenticels, dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with many straight purplish 

 shining ultimately dull gray-brown spines 4-6 cm long and very 

 numerous and branched on old stems. * 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;5^ 39, type). May 28 and September 26, 

 1905- 



Crataegus promissa n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, gradually narrowed and con- 

 cave-cuneate at the entire or glandular base, sharply doubly serrate 

 above, with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and deeply divided 

 into 4-6 pairs of slender acuminate lobes ; about one third grown 

 when the flowers open the first of June and then thin, yellow-green 

 and roughened above by short white hairs, and at maturity thin, 

 glabrous, dark blue-green and smooth on the upper surface and pale 

 blue-green on the lower surface, 5-5.8 cm long and 4-7 cm wide, 

 with slender yellow midribs, and thin primary veins arching to the 

 points of the lobes ; petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex, 

 sparingly glandular through the season, 4-4.5 cm in length ; stipules 

 linear-obovate, glandular, fading brown, caducous ; leaves on vigor- 

 ous shoots thick, cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate, deeply lobed, 



