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glabrous, the lobes long, slender, acuminate, entire, glabrous, re- 

 flexed after anthesis; stamens 7-9; anthers light rose color; styles 

 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 

 Fruit ripening from the middle to the end of September, on slender 

 drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong, full and 

 rounded at the ends or slightly narrowed toward the base, orange- 

 red, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, i-i .3 cm long, and 8-9 mm 

 wide; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and slender 

 closely appressed lobes, their tips often deciduous from the ripe 

 fruit; flesh thick, pale yellow, sweet and juicy; nutlets 2 or 3, grad- 

 ually narrowed and rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a 

 low deeply grooved ridge, 7-8 mm long, and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 4 m high, with small erect stems and branches, 

 and slender slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets, dark orange-green 

 deeply tinged with purple when they first appear, becoming dull 

 reddish-brown and marked by small pale lenticels in their first 

 season and light gray-brown the following year, and armed with 

 slender straight purplish spines 2.5-3.5 cm long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (^9, type), September 29, 1903, June i, 

 1905, and May 28, 1905; (^ 18), J Dunbar, May 28, 1905. 



Crataegus colorata Sargent 



Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 123 (1903). 



Buffalo, common, J. Dunbar, September 26, 1905, May 28, 1906; 

 Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar, September 28, 1905 ; also near Rochester, 

 New York. . 



Crataegus rubicunda Sargent 



Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 121 (1903). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar, May 21, 1903, May 28, 1906; also near 

 Rochester, New York. 



Crataegus ornata Sargent 



Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 120 (1903). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar ( ;^ 42), October 6, 1902, May 28, 1906; also 

 near Rochester, New York. 



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