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A shrub not more than 4 m high, with numerous small erect or 

 slightly spreading stems covered with dark gray bark, small ascend- 

 ing branches and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets, dark 

 orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, 

 becoming bright chestnut-brown in their first season and dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with slender nearly straight 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 4.5-5.5 cm long, and often persistent 

 and becoming stout and dark gray on old stems. 



Rich moist hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (^^23, type), 

 September 21, 1905, May 2^ and September 24, 1906, ( ;^ 23A), 

 September 23, 1905, INIay 17, 1906, ( ;^ 9), September 17, 1905, 

 May 28, 1906. 



PRUIjVOSAE 



Stamens 20 



Anthers rose color or pink 



Crataegus beata Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 97 (1903). 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell ( ^ 102), September 

 1906, June 1907; also valley of the Genesee river, New York. 



Crataegus arcana ]^)cadle 



Bilt. Bot. Studies I. 122 (1902). Sargent, Bot. Gazette XXXV. loi ; 

 Acad. Sci. Phila. Proc. 588 (1905). 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^28), September 

 30, 1906, May 25 and October 28, 1907; also Niagara Falls, New 

 York and eastern Pennsylvania to western North Carolina. 



Crataegus pellecta n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper side of 

 the young leaves and petioles. Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded 

 or abruptly cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle 

 into 3 or 4 pairs of small spreading aciuninate lobes; about half 

 grown when the flowers open at the end of ]\Iay or early in Jtnic 

 and then thin, light yellow-green above and slightly hairy along the 

 upper side of the midribs and paler below, and at maturity thin, 

 dull bluish green, 5-6 cm long and 3.5-4.5 cm wide, with thin promi- 

 nent midribs and primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing- 

 margined at the apex, sparingly villose on the upper side while 



