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20; anthers pale pink; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening early in 

 October, on stout villose erect or spreading reddish pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong or ovate, bright cherry- 

 red, lustrous, marked by pale dots, 1.2-1.4 cm in diameter; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and spreading and ap- 

 pressed lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh yellow, 

 soft and succulent ; nutlets 2 or 3, gradually narrowed and rounded 

 at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad slightly grooved ridge, 

 penetrated on the inner surface by large shallow cavities, 7-8 mm 

 long, and 5-6 mm wide. 



An arborescent shrub 3-4 m high, with stems covered with dark 

 gray bar, spreading branches forming a round-topped open head, 

 and stout nearly straight branchlets, light orange-green, slightly 

 hairy and marked by large lenticels when they first appear, becom- 

 ing light red-brown and lustrous in their first season and dull dark 

 reddish brown the following year and armed with stout nearly 

 straight chestnut-brov/n or purplish shining spines 5-6 cm long, 

 becoming branched and very abundant on old stems. 



Niagara Falls, J. Dunbar (^'2), October 7, 1902, June 7 and 

 September 18, 1906. 



Crataegus calvini n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic to oval or ovate, acuminate or acute at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate or rounded at the entire 

 base, coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, 

 and very slightly divided above the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of small 

 acuminate lobes; more than half grown when the flowers open 

 about the first of June and then thin, yellow-green and slightly 

 roughened above by short white hairs and pale and pubescent be- 

 low, and at maturity subcoriaceous, dark green, smooth, glabrous 

 and lustrous on the upper surface, paler and pubescent on the lower 

 surface principally on the stout rose colored midribs and slender 

 primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes, 5-7 cm 

 long and 4-5 cm wide ; petioles stout, narrowly wing-margined 

 sometimes to the middle, vihose-pubescent on the upper side while 

 young, becoming glabrous, rose colored in the autumn, 1-1.5 cm 

 in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate to oval or rarely 

 obovatc, short-pointed and acute at the apex, more coarsely serrate, 

 often 9-10 cm long and 7-8 cm wide. Flowers 1. 2-1. 5 cm in 

 diameter, on short >tout densely villose pubescent pedicels, in 

 broad many-flowered thick-branched hairy corymbs, with foliaceous 



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