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

 long and broad, with slender midribs and 3 or 4 pairs of thin pri- 

 mary veins ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, 

 glandiilar throughout the season, often tinged with red in the 

 autumn, 2-3 cm in length ; stipules linear, glandular, fading brown, 

 caducous ; leaves on vigorous shoots subcoriaceous, truncate at the 

 base, coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed and often 7-8 cm long and 

 wide. Flowers 2 cm in diameter, on elongated slender glabrous 

 pedicels, in compact usually 5- or 6-flowered corymbs, with linear to 

 linear-obovate glandular bracts and bractlets ; calyx-tube broadly ob- 

 conic, glabrous, the lobes short, slender, acuminate, glabrous, entire ; 

 stamens 10; filaments persistent on the ripe fruit; anthers purplish 

 red; styles 3 of 4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of long 

 matted white hairs. Fruit ripening from the first to the middle 

 of October, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends or obo- 

 vate and slightly narrowed at the base, bright orange-red, pruinose, 

 marked by small pale dots, 1-1.2 cm in diameter; calyx prominent, 

 witliout a tube, with a broad shallow cavity, and widespreading 

 persistent lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle ; flesh 

 thin, yellow, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, narrow and rounded 

 at the ends, slightly ridged on the back, with a low rounded ridge, 

 about 7 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 5 m high, with ascending stems covered with 

 dark gray scaly bark, spreading branches, and slender zigzag glab- 

 rous branchlets dark orange-green more or less deeply tinged with 

 red when they first appear, becoming dull chestnut-brown and 

 marked by small pale lenticels in their first season and dull reddish 

 brown the following year, and armed with slender slightly curved 

 shining spines 5-6 cm long, persistent and very numerous on old 

 stems and branches. 



Buffalo, J. Dunbar (?^ 22, type), Septembei 30, 1904, May 28, 

 1905; ( ^ 27), September 30, 1904, May 28, 1906. 



Crataegus tortuosa n, sp. 



Leaves oblong-ovate, abruptly cuneate or rarely rounded at the 

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

 glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of broad 

 acuminate spreading lobes, about half grown when the flowers open 

 at the end of May and then membranaceous, yellow-green, slightly 

 roughened above by short white hairs and glabrous below, and at 

 maturity thick, blue-green, smooth and glabrous on the upper sur- 



