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ing a narrow fastigiate head, and slender nearly straight branchlets 

 dark orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first 

 appear, becoming light chestnut-brown and lustrous in their first 

 season, dull gray the following year, and armed with occasional 

 stout nearly straight light chestnut-brown shining spines 2.5-3 ^^ 

 long. 



Roadside, near east bank of Hemlock lake, Livingston co., Henry 

 T. Brown (^^23, type), May 28 and October 1906, (^'13) May 

 28 and October 13, 1906, (y^iS, with 6-8 stamens) May 18 and 

 October 1906, (#16, with rather lighter colored anthers) May and 

 October 1906. 



Crataegus macera n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, rounded, truncate or cuneate at the entire base, 

 finely often doubly serrate above, with glandular teeth, and slightly 

 divided into 5 or 6 pairs of small acuminate lateral lobes ; more 

 than half grown when the flowers open the end of May and then 

 thin, dark yellow-green, slightly hairy above and pale and glabrous 

 below, and at maturity very thin, dull yeltow-green and scabrate on 

 the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 4-5 cm long, and 

 3.5-4 cm wide, with thin midribs and primary veins ; petioles slen- 

 der, slightly wing-margined at the apex, glandular while young, 

 1.5-2.5 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots thin, truncate or 

 rounded at the broad base, more coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed, 

 and often 6.5-7 cm long and 6.6-5 cm wide, with slender rose 

 colored glandular petioles. Flowers about 2 cm in diameter, on 

 long slender glabrous pedicels, in wide mostly 6-io-flowered 

 corymbs, the elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes separated by 

 wide sinuses, gradually narrowed from the base, long, slender, 

 acuminate and glandular at the apex, entire or occasionally glandu- 

 lar dentate above the middle, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose 

 on the inner surface, reflexed after anthcsis ; stamens 5-7, usually 7; 

 anthers light rose color; styles 4 or 5, surrounded at the base by a 

 ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening the middle of October, on 

 slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose to 

 short-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small dark dots, about 

 I cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a broad deep cavity 

 tomentose on the inner surface, and spreading lobes dark red on 

 the upper side below the middle ; flesh ycllow-grccn, dry and mealy ; 

 nutlets 4 or 5, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends or 



