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persistent on the ripe fruit ; anthers pink ; styles 3-5, surrounded at 

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

 end of September, on slender reddish pedicels, in few-fruited erect 

 clusters, short-oblong to obovate, orange-red, lustrous, marked by 

 large pale lenticels, about i cm long and 8-10 mm wide ; calyx little 

 enlarged, with a narrow deep cavity, and closely appressed lobes 

 dark red on the upper side below the middle ; flesh thin, yellow- 

 green, dry and mealy; nutlets usually 4, narrowed and acute at the 

 ends qr rounded at the base, rounded or ridged on the back, with a 

 low broad ridge, light colored, 7-8 mm long, and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub' 4-5 m high, with crowded slender fastigiate light gray 

 branches, the lower spreading, the upper ascending, and stout 

 only slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets light orange-green when 

 they first appear, becoming dull olive-brown and marked by small 

 dark lenticels in their first season and dull gray-brown the following 

 year, and armed with few stout nearly straight dull dark chestnut- 

 brown spines 2.5-3 ^-"^^ ^^^ length. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;^4i, type). May 28, June 12 and September 

 26, 1905. 



Crataegus dunbari Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 126 (1903). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;^43), September 26, 1905, May 28, 1906; 

 also near Rochester, New York. 



Crataegus asperifolia Sargent 



Rhodora III. 31 (1901). Sargent and Peck, N. Y. Slate Mus. Bill. 105. 

 64 (1906). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar ()0 13), September 29, 1903, June i and Sep- 

 tember 20, 1904; (^46), May 28, 1906; (^43), September 26, 

 1905, May 28, 1906; also near Albany, New York and in western 

 New England. 



Crataegus scabrida Sargent 



Rhodora III. 29 (1901) ; Silva N. Am. XIII. 133, t. 677. 



Belfast, Allegany co., Baxter and Dewing (#210), May 29 and 

 September 17, 1903, September 13, 1904, May 29 and September 19, 

 1905 ; also in western New England. 



