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color ; styles 2-5, usually 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow 

 ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening late in October, on short 

 pedicels, in few- fruited drooping clusters, short-oblong, slightly 

 narrowed to the rounded ends, deeply impressed at the insertion of 

 the stalk, dull red, 9-10 mm long, and 8-9 mm in diameter ; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity tomentose in the bottom, 

 and spreading and appressed lobes, their tips often deciduous from 

 the ripe fruit; flesh thin, orange color, sweet and juicy; nutlets 

 usually 3 or 4, narrowed and rounded at the ends, ridged on the 

 back, with a broad deeply grooved ridge, 6-6.5 ^^^^^^ lo"g) aiid 4-4.5 

 mm wide. 



A shrub 4-5 m high, with numerous small ascending stems 

 covered near the ground with ashy gray scaly bark, small spreading 

 gray-brown branches, and stout slightly zigzag branchlets dark 

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

 becoming dark chestnut-brown or purple and lustrous in their first 

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

 few stout slightly curved light chestnut-brown ultimately gray 

 spines 2-2.5 cm long. 



Hihsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^63, type). May 23 

 and September 21, 1906. 



Crataegus bella Sargent 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^3i), September 21, 

 1905, May 20, 1906; also at Buffalo, and at Chippewa, Ontario. 



Crataegus genialis Sargent 

 Rhodora V. 148 (1903). 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^44), September 24, 



1905, May 25, 1906, May and September 1907 (^4y), September 

 28, 1905, May 24 and September 4, 1906. . 



Crataegus suavis Sargent 

 Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell ( 99), September 22, 



1906, June 3, 1907; also at Buffalo. 



Crataegus glaucophylla Sargent 

 Rhodora V. 140 (1903); Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 120 (1903)- 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^48), September 28, 

 1905, May 23, 1906; also southern Michigan and through Ontario 

 to western New England. 



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