REPORT OF .THE STATE BOTANIST I907 5I 



sometimes 8-9 cm long and 7-8 cm wide, with broadly winged 

 petioles and foliaceous lunate coarsely serrate persistent stipules. 

 Flowers 1.6 cm in diameter, on slender elongated glabrous pedicels, 

 in broad lax many-flowered corymbs, with linear to oblong-obovate 

 glandular caducous bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 

 conic, glabrous, the lobes long, narrow, acuminate, entire or slightly 

 dentate below the middle, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 

 5-7 ; anthers pink ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a broad 

 ring of long white hairs. Fruit ripening at the end of September, 

 on long slender drooping pedicels, in many-fruited clusters, oblong- 

 obovate, tapering at the long base, crimson, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm long 

 and 7-8 mm wide ; calyx little enlarged, with a small shallow cavity, 

 and reflexed often closely appressed elongated narrow lobes; flesh 

 thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, rounded at the base, acute at 

 thet apex, only slightly ridged on the back^ 8-9 mm long, and about 

 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous stems covered with dark 

 gray scaly bark, ascending branches, and slender zigzag glabrous 

 branchlets briglit orange-green more or less tinged with purple when 

 they first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown and marked by 

 large pale lenticels in their first season and pale gray-brown the 

 following year, and armed with slender slightly curved light chest- 

 nut-brown shining spines 4-5 cm long, often pointing to the base 

 of the branch, and compound and persistent on old stems. 



Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar, ( ;^ 4, type), ]\Iay 21 and September, 

 1903, June I, 1904; J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent ( # 19), September 

 16, 1904, J. Dunbar, j\Iay 28, 1905, J. Dunbar (^ 30), September 

 2-/, 1905, May 28, 1906. 



Crataegus strigosa n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate and long pointed at the apex, cuneatc 

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

 ular teeth, and divided into 5 or 6 pairs of small acuminate spread- 

 ing lateral lobes; more than half grown when the flowers open at 

 the end of May and then membranaceous, yellow-green and rough- 

 ened above by short rigid white hairs and pale and glabrous below,, 

 and at maturity thin, yellow-green and scabrate on the upper sur- 

 face and light yellow-grccn on the lower surface. 4-5 cm long and 

 3.5-4 cm wide, with stout midribs, and 5 or 6 pairs of prominent 

 primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandular throughout the season, 2-2.5 ^^"^^ ^^^ length. Flowers 



