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clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, bright orange- 

 red, lustrous, marked by occasional small pale dots, 1-1.2 cm long 

 and 8-9 mm wide ; calyx prominent, with a broad shallow cavity, the 

 lobes elongated, spreading, dark rea on the upper side below the 

 middle, their tips usually deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, 

 yellow, slightly juicy; nutlets 3, narrowed and rounded at the base, 

 acute at the apex, ridged on the back, with a narrow high ridge, 

 5-6 mm long, and 3-4 mm wide. 



A shrub 2-2.5 ^^^ hig^^> with small erect stems forming an open 

 irregular head, and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets light 

 green tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dull reddish 

 brown and marked by small pale lenticels in their first season and 

 dull gray-brown the following year, and armed with stout or slender 

 nearly straight purplish shining spines 2.5-3 ^"^ long. 



Wooded banks, near Rochester, J. Dunbar (;^ 132, type), Sep- 

 tember 8, 1902, May 16 and September 16, 1903; Murray, common, 

 M. S. Baxter (^^133), October 11, 1902; Filmore, Baxter and 

 Dewing ( ;^309), September 4, 1905. 



At the suggestion of Mr Dunbar this species is named in memory 

 of Charles Miller Booth, M. D. (October 12, 1830-January 30, 

 1906), a resident of Rochester during nearly the whole of his life 

 and a careful student of the flora of western New York, especially 

 of the mosses and grasses in which he was particularly interested. 



Crataegus suavis n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly concave-cuneate 

 at the entire base, doubly serrate above, with slender glandular teeth, 

 and divided into 5 or 6 pairs of acuminate spreading lateral lobes ; 

 tinged with red and roughened above by short white hairs when 

 they unfold, about half grown when the flowers open at the end of 

 May and then membranaceous, yellow-green, smooth and scabrate 

 above, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, smooth and glabrous on 

 the upper surface and pale on the lower surface, 5.6-7 cm long and 

 4.5 cm wide, with slender yellow midribs, and thin primary veins 

 arching obh"quely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, glandular, with persistent glands, 

 2-2.5 cm long; stipules linear to linear-obovate, glandular, foliaceous 

 and lunate on vigorous shoots, glandular, caducous. Flowers 

 1.5 cm in diameter, on slender elongated glabrous pedicels, in lax 

 thin branci'ed usually 7-10-flowered corymbs, with linear glandular 

 bracts and bractlets fading brown; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 



