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

 scaly bark, small erect branches, and thin nearly straight branchlets 

 light olive-green and lustrous in their first season and dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with stout straight or slightly 

 curved light chestnut- brown shining spines 3-3.5 cm in length. 



Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar (;^I4, type), June i, 1904, May 28, 

 1906, J. Dunbar and C. S. Sargent, September 16, 1904. 



Crataegus succulenta Link 



Handbook n. 76 (1831). Sargent, Silva N. Am. XIII. 139, t. 131; 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 133; Man. 497, f. 411; Acad. Sci. Phila. 

 Proc. 675 (1905). Sargent & Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 105. 72 (1906). 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (^21), September 29, 1903, September 20, 

 1904, June 12, 1905; Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar (;^29), June 12 and 

 September 27, 1905, J. Dunbar (^7), May 22 and September 29, 

 1903 ; also eastern New York to southern New England and 

 Michigan. 



Crataegus admiranda n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-obovate to oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 concave-cuneate and gradually narrowed to the long entire base, 

 finely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and very 

 slightly divided above tlie middle into 4 or 5 pairs of small acumi- 

 nate spreading lobes ; nearly half grown when the flowers open 

 during the first week of June and then thin, yellow-green, lustrous 

 and roughened above by short white hairs and pale and villose below 

 especially along the midribs and veins, and at maturity dark yellow- 

 green, lustrous, smooth and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and 

 almost glabrous on the lower surface, 6-8 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, 

 with stout midribs often rose color in the autumn, and slender 

 primary-veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles 

 slender, slightly wing-margined sometimes to the middle, villose on 

 the upper side while young, becoming almost glabrous, usually rose 

 color in the autumn, 1.5-1.8 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 subcoriaceous, broadly ovate to oval, gradually narrowed and 

 rounded at the base, more coarsely serrate, often 7-8 cm long and 

 6-7 cm wide. Flowers 1.6-1.8 cm in diameter, on long slender 

 pedicels coated with matted pale hairs, in wide usually 18-20- 

 flowered hairy corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, densely villose, the lobes slen- 

 der, acuminate, coarsely glai^dular serrate, villose on the outer, 

 slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 



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