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at the base, narrow and rounded at the apex, sHghtly ridged on the 

 back, with a rounded ridge 6-6.5 "^i^^ loi^g> and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 5 m high, with stout sHghtly zigzag branchlets 

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

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

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

 numerous stout curved or nearly straight chestnut colored shining 

 spines 3.5-4 cm long, persistent and simple on the stem. 



East bank of Hemlock lake, Livingston co., H. T. Brown (;^26 

 type), May 28 and October 3, 1906, (^25, with lighter colored 

 anthers) May and September 1906. 



Crataegus gracilipes n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface 

 of the leaves. Leaves ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at the 

 apex, gradually or abruptly narrowed and concave-cuneate at the 

 entire base, sharply often doubly serrate, with long straight glandu- 

 lar teeth, and divided often only above the middle into 5 or 6 pairs 

 of long slender acuminate spreading lobes; nearly fully grown when 

 the flowers open in the last week of May and then very thin, light 

 yellow-green, lustrous and slightly liairy above and pale and 

 glaucous below, and at maturity thin, scabrate and dull yellow- 

 green above, paler below, 7-8 cm long and 4.5-6 cm wide, with 

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

 margined at the apex, glandular while young, with minute deciduous 

 glands, 3-5 cm in length. Flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, on 

 long slender pedicels, in mostly 5-12-flowered corymbs, the elon- 

 gated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, 

 slender, very long, acuminate and red at the apex, finely glandular 

 serrate usually only near the middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 

 6-8; anthers light red; styles 3 to 5. Fruit ripening the end of 

 September, on long slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clus- 

 ters, narrow-obovate, gradually narrowed and rounded at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed to the long slender base, scarlet, lustrous, 1.2- 

 1.3 cm long, 6-7 mm wide; calyx little enlarged, with a deep wide 

 cavity, and spreading persistent lobes ; flesh yellow-green, thick and 

 juicy; nutlets 3-5, narrowed and acute at the ends, or when 3 

 broader and rounded at the apex, ridged on the back, with a broad 

 low slightly grooved ridge, 6.5-7 """"^ ^ong. and 5-5.5 mm wide. 



