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stout straight or slightly curved light chestnut-brown shining spines 

 4-5 cm long, compound apd long persistent on old stems and 

 branches. 



Banks of the outlet of Hemlock lake at Hemlock railroad station, 

 Livingston co., New York, Henry T. Brown (^'6, type), May 28 

 and October 4, 1906. 



Crataegus honeoyensis n. sp. 



Leaves oval to ovate or slightly obovate, rounded or acute at the 

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

 entire base, sharply doubly serrate above, with straight or incurved 

 glandular teeth, and sometimes slightly divided above the middle 

 into 2 or 3 pairs of short broad acuminate lobes ; nearly fully grown 

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

 yellow-green, smooth, lustrous and slightly hairy along the midribs 

 above and pale bluish green and covered below with short soft hairs, 

 and at maturity thick, reticulate-venulose, dull yellow-green, smooth 

 and glabrous on the upper surface, pale and slightly hairy on the 

 lower surface on the stout rose colored midribs, and slender primary 

 veins extending very obliquely to the apex of the leaf, 6-8 cm long 

 and 4-4.5 cm wide ; petioles stout, narrowly wing-margined some- 

 times to the base, slightly hairy on the upper side, often rose color 

 in the autumn, 1.5-2 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots rather 

 thicker, ovate or oval, more coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed, 

 and sometimes 8-10 cm long and 5-6 cm wide. Flowers about 1.5 

 cm in diameter, on long slender drooping villose pedicels, in narrow 

 compact many-flowered corymbs, the long lower peduncles from the 

 axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, covered with 

 long scattered pale hairs, the lobes long, wide, acute, laciniately 

 glandular serrate, villose, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; 

 anthers pale pink, styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow 

 ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening the end of September, on 

 stout slightly hairy erect reddish pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, 

 short-oblong or slightly ovate, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small 

 pale dots, 8-10 mm in diameter; calyx prominent, with a broad deep 

 cavity, and elongated spreading persistent lobes slightly hairy and 

 dark red on the upper side; flesh thin, dry and yellow, becoming 

 soft and succulent; nutlets 2 or 3, rounded at the ends, or when 3 

 acute at the base, ridged on the back, with a low broad sHghtly 

 grooved ridge, penetrated on the inner faces by shallow cavities, 

 6-6.5 ^^ lorig, and 4-4.5 mm wide. 



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