REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI2 T15 
Crataegus misella n. sp. 
Leaves rhombic to obovate, acuminate and long-pointed at the 
apex, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the entire base, finely 
doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and divided 
above the middle into three or four pairs of small acuminate spread- 
ing lobes; nearly fully grown when the flowers open at the end of 
May and then thin, yellow-green, roughened above by short white 
hairs and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, scab- 
rate on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 5 to 6 cm 
long and 3.5 to 4 cm wide, with slender midribs, and thin primary 
veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, 
narrowly wing-margined at the apex, villose on the upper side while 
young, soon glabrous, 2 to 2.5 cm in length; leaves on vigorous 
shoots narrowed and rounded at the base, coarsely serrate, more 
deeply lobed and sometimes 6 cm long and 5 cm wide. Flowers 1.5 
to 1.7 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, in 6-15- 
flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 
leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous or slightly villose, the 
lobes slender, acuminate, glandular-dentate, glabrous on the outer, 
villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens five to 
seven; anthers rose color; styles three or four, surrounded at the 
base by a ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the middle of Septem- 
ber on red pedicels, in erect clusters, short-oblong, rounded at the 
ends, crimson, marked by small pale dots, 1.2 cm long and I cm in 
diameter; calyx little enlarged with a deep cavity pointed in the 
bottom, and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, 
firm and bitter; nutlets three or four, rounded at the ends, broader 
at the base than at the apex, rounded and ridged on the back with a 
broad high ridge, usually irregularly depressed on the inner faces, 
6 to 7 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extend- 
ing nearly to the base of the nutlet. 
A shrub 3 to 4 m high, with ascending stems and branches, and 
slender glabrous slightly zigzag branchlets tinged with red and 
marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming chestnut- 
brown and lustrous at the end of their first season and dull gray- 
brown the following year, and armed with stout slightly curved 
chestnut-brown shining spines 4 to 5 cm long. 
On hillsides in clay soil, near Belfast, Allegany county; Baxter 
and Dewing (no. 216, type), September 14, 1904, May 28 and Sep- 
tember 17, 1905. 
