REPORT OF tHE STATE BOTANIST I907 45 



calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes wide, acuminate, 

 entire or occasionally irregularly toothed toward the apex, glabrous, 

 bright red above the middle, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 5-8, 

 usually 5 ; anthers dark rose color ; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the 

 base by a wide ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening the end 

 of October, on slender reddish pedicels, in 4- or 5-fruited spreading 

 clusters, somewhat obovate, full and rounded at the apex, slightly 

 narrowed and sometimes decurrent on the pedicel at the base, 

 marked by many pale dots, crimson, pruinose, 1-1.2 cm long and 

 9-1 1 mm wide; calyx little enlarged, without a tube, witli a 

 narrow shallow cavity, and spreading persistent lobes often serrate 

 toward the apex and dark red on the upper side ; flesh thin, yellow, 

 dry and mealy; nutlets 2 or 3,' narrowed and rounded at the ends 

 or acute at the apex, ridged on the back, with a broad grooved ridge, 

 6-7 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide 



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

 bark, ascending and spreading branches, and very slender zigzag 

 glabrous branchlets light green, slightly tinged with red when they 

 first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous in 

 their first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and 

 armed with numerous thin slightly curved light, brown shining 

 spines, becoming purple and ultimately gray, and 2.5-3 ^^^^ long. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;^I9, type), September 30, 1904, May 27, 

 1905; ( ;^3i), September 30, 1904; ( #44), September 26, 1905. 



Crataegus plana n. sp. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, acuminate, rounded or rarely cuneate at 

 the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular 

 teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of 

 small spreading acuminate lobes ; tinged with red and sparingly 

 villose on the upper surface and in the axils of the veins below 

 when they unfold, almost fully grown and nearly glabrous when 

 the flowers open about the 20th of May and then thin, light yellow- 

 green and smooth above and bluish green below, and at maturity 

 thin, glabrous, dark green and somewhat lustrous on the upper 

 surface and pale blue-green on the lower surface, 4-5 cm long 

 and 3-4 cm wide, with slender yellow midribs, and thin primary 

 veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, 

 wing-margined often to the middle, slightly glandular while young, 

 T.5-2 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, 

 broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded or cordate at the base, more 



