REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1912 11g 
pedicles, in board 5-15-fruited clusters, subglobose, dark red, 
marked by large pale dots, 7 to 8 mm in diameter ; calyx prominent, 
with a wide shallow cavity broad in the bottom, and spreading and 
reflexed enlarged persistent lobes; flesh thin, firm and dry; nutlets 
two or three, pointed at the apex, rounded at the base, ridged on 
the back with a broad grooved ridge, penetrated on the inner faces 
by deep narrow cavities, 6 to 7 mm long and 3 to 5 mm wide. 
A shrub 4 to 5 m high, with erect gray stems and branches, and 
slender, glabrous branchlets tinged with red and marked by pale 
lenticels when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown 
and lustrous, and armed with numerous slender straight or slightly 
curved dark chestnut-brown shining spines 3.5 to 6 cm long. 
In thickets in heavy clay soil, near Belfast, Allegany county, 
Baxter and Dewing (no. 214, type), May 30, 1903, September 14, 
1904, September 19, 1905. 
Crataegus ambrosia Sargent 
N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 105. 60 (1906). 
Albany. 
Crataegus rhombifolia Sargent 
Rhodora V. 183 (1903); N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 105. 71 (1906). 
Crown Point, Whitehall, near Albany; also in western and south- 
ern New England. 
Crataegus deweyana Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 133 (1903). 
Ithaca, Rochester, Rush, Portage, Castile and Silver Springs. 
Crataegus cupulifera Sargent 
Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 129 (1903). 
Crataegus simulans Sargent. N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 122. 125 (1908). 
Chapinville, Rochester, Hemlock lake and Coopers Plains. 
Crataegus balkwillii Sargent 
Ontario Nat.. Sci. Bul. 4. 80 (1908). 
Chapinville; also in southern Ontario. 
Crataegus microsperma Sargent 
Ontario Nat. Sci. Bul. 4. 82 (1908) 
Little Falls, Coopers Plains; also in southern Ontario. 
