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on vigorous shoots somewhat larger, more deeply lobed and more 

 coarsely serrate. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in diameter, on long slender 

 slightly villose pedicels, in wide lax mostly 9-14-flowered corymbs, 

 the elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, the lobes abruptly narrowed at the base, 

 long, slender, acuminate, minutely glandular dentate, glabrous on 

 the outer, slightly hairy on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 10 ; anthers light pink ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base 

 by a few pale hairs. Fruit ripening early in October, on long 

 slender reddish pedicels furnished with occasional hairs, in few- 

 fruited clusters, short-oblong to slightly obovate, bright red, lustrous, 

 marked by small pale dots, 8-10 mm long and 7-9 mm in diameter ; 

 calyx prominent, with a short tube, a broad shallow cavity narrowed 

 and tomentose in the bottom, and elongated persistent lobes villose 

 and bright red on the upper side ; flesh thin, yellow-green, dry and 

 mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, gradually narrowed and rounded, or when 4 

 acute at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad high grooved 

 ridge, more or less penetrated on the inner faces by long wide de- 

 pressions, 6.5-7 mm long, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with small stems covered with pale gray 

 bark, spreading horizontal and drooping branches, and very slender 

 nearly straight branchlets, light orange-green and marked by pale 

 lenticels when they first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown and 

 very lustrous in the first season and pale gray-green in their third 

 year, and armed with slender nearly straight dark purple spines 4-5 

 cm long. 



Near the road along the east side of Hemlock lake, Livingston 

 CO., Henry T. Brown (;^ii, type), May 28 and October 3, 1906. 



This species has the foliage, habit and general appearance of a 

 Coccineae. From that group it is excluded by the depressions on 

 the inner faces of the nutlets which are sometimes as much de- 

 veloped as in some of the species of Tomentosae. On many of the 

 nutlets these depressions are much less deep than on others, how- 

 ever, and as they show so much variation in this character it is 

 perhaps best to place it among the Anomalae, which by the discovery 

 of this species appears to be even more closely related than was 

 before supposed ; on one hand with the Coccineae and on the other 

 with the Tomentosae. 



Crataegus floridula n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves and 

 calyx lobes. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate or oval, long-pointed 



