REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 II3 



succulent; nutlets usually 2, suborbicular, rounded and slightly 

 grooved on the back, penetrated on the inner faces by broad deep 

 cavities, about 5 mm long, and 2-2.5 ^^^ wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m high, with stems covered with pale gray 

 bark, ascending branches, and slender nearly straight branchlets 

 dark orange-red and covered with long matted pale hairs when 

 they first appear, becoming light orange-red and lustrous and still 

 hairy in their first season and dark gray-brown the following year, 

 and armed witli slender straight or slightly curved gray spines 

 2.5-3 cm long. 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (^35, type), June 13 

 and September 21, 1906. 



Leaves thick 



Stamens 20; anthers purple 



Crataegus frutescens n. sp. 



Leaves obovate, gradually narrowed and acute or rounded at the 

 apex, concave-cuneate at the entire base, finely often doubly serrate 

 above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided generally 

 only above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of small acuminate lobes ; 

 faintly tinged with bronze color and slightly hairy above, especially 

 along the midribs, when they unfold, more than half grown when 

 the flowers open late in May or early in June, and then thick, light 

 yellow-green and nearly glabrous above and pale and villose on the 

 midribs and veins below, and at maturity subcoriaceous, conspicu- 

 ously reticulate venulose, dark yellow-green, smooth and very lus- 

 trous on the upper surface, light yellow-green and still slightly 

 hairy on the lower surface along the stout rose colored midribs 

 and slender primary veins, 4-5 cm long and 3.5-4 cm wide ; petioles 

 stout, slightly wing-margined to below the middle, sparingly villose 

 while young, soon becoming glabrous, often deep rose color in the 

 autumn, 7-10 mm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate to 

 oval, more coarsely serrate and 6-6.5 ^^ ^^^S ^^^ 5~^ ^^^ wide, 

 with stout broadly winged often glandular petioles. Flowers 1.4- 

 1.6 cm in diameter, on slender villose pedicels, in compact mostly 

 io-15-flowered corymbs, with long narrow obovate to linear acumi- 

 nate glandular caducous bracts and bractlets, the long lower pedun- 

 cles from the axils of upi)er leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 

 slightly hairy at the base, glabrous above, the lobes gradually nar- 

 rowed, short, broad, acuminate, finely glandular serrate, glabrous 

 on the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexcd after 



