REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQO/ I23 



often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, dry and 

 mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, 

 ridged on the back, with a long narrow ridge, 6-7 mm long, and 

 3.5-4 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous small stems, ascending or 

 suberect branches, and slender slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets 

 dark orange-green when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut- 

 brown, lustrous and marked by pale lenticels in their first season 

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

 slender straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 

 3.5-6 cm long. 



Dry sandy or rocky soil. North Elba, Essex co., common and the 

 prevailing species, C. H. Peck (;^4i, type), May 27, June 2 and 

 September 18, 1903, ( ^41') July 22 and September 18, 1904. 

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Crataegus verrucalis n. sp.. Peck 



Leaves ovate to slightly obovate, acuminate and long-pointed at 

 the apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the base, finely often 

 doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and divided usually 

 only about the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of slender acuminate spread- 

 ing lobes; bronze-red and covered on the upper surface with short 

 white hairs when they unfold, more than half grown when the 

 flowers open at the end of May or early in June and then thin, 

 yellow-green and still slightly hairy above and paler below, and at 

 maturity thin, yellow-green on the lower surface, 4-4.5 cm long 

 and 2.5-3 ^"^ wide, with thin prominent midribs, and rather obscure 

 primary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glabrous, glandular, with often persistent glands, 1.5-2 cm in 

 length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate to suborbicular, 

 rounded at the base, more coarsely serrate and mor^ deeply lobed. 

 Flowers 1.2-1.4 cm in diameter, on short slender slightly villose 

 pedicels, in small compact 4-10-flowered hairy corymbs, the lower 

 peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, villose, the lobes slender, acuminate, glandular dentate, 

 glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner surface, re- 

 flexed after anthesis ; stamens 5-10; anthers red; styles 2-4, usually 

 3. Fruit ripening from the middle to the end of September and 

 often persistent until after the leaves have fallen, on slender 

 slightly hairy drooping, pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose 

 to short-oblong, scarlet, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm long and 8-10 mm in 

 diameter ; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and small 



