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ripening early in September and soon falling, on stout red pedicels, 

 in few-fruited drooping clusters, obovate, rounded at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed from above the middle to the base, dark crim- 

 son, lustrous, marked by many small pale dots ; calyx little enlarged, 

 with a deep narrow cavity, the lobes usually deciduous from the ripe 

 fruit; flesh thick, yellow, soft and juicy; nutlets 5, thin, rounded 

 at the base, gradually narrowed and acute at the apex, slightly 

 grooved on the back, about 7 mm long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 5 m high, with numerous ashy gray stems, 

 small ascending and spreading branches, and slender slightly zigzag 

 branchlets, dark orange-green deeply tinged with purple when they 

 first appear, becoming in their first season light chestnut-brown, 

 lustrous and marked by many small pale lenticels, and dull gray- 

 brown the following year, and armed with stout slightly curved 

 chestnut-brown or purplish spines 3-4 cm long. 



Low wet wuods, Buffalo, J. Dunbar (;^ 36, type). May 28 and 

 September 26, 1905. 



V MOLLES 



Fruit subglobose to obovate, scarlet, pubescent at the ends ; flesh 

 thick and succulent; nutlets 3-5, narrowed at the ends, usually 

 slightly ridged ; corymbs hairy ; leaves thin, broad, cuneate or 

 rounded at the base; stamens 15-20; anthers rose color, 



Crataegus radians n. sp. 



Leaves oval to ovate, acuminate, concave-cuneate or rounded at 

 the often unsymmetrical glandular base, sharply doubly serrate 

 above, with stfaight glandular teeth, and divided often only above 

 the middle into 6 or 7 pairs of slender acuminate spreading lobes ; 

 nearly half grown when the flowers open about the 20th of May 

 and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by short 

 white hairs and villose below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green 

 and scabrate on the upper surface, paler and coated below on the 

 slender midribs and primary veins with matted white hairs, 6-8.5 

 cm long and 4-5 cm wide ; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined 

 at the apex, villose, 2.5-3.5 ^^^^ ^^^ length ; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 rounded or truncate at the broad base, more coarsely serrate and 

 more deeply lobed, often 9-10 cm long and 8-9 cm wide, with 

 slender glandular petioles. Flowers 1.7-1.9 cm in diameter, on 

 slender villose pedicels, in wide lax 5-16-flowcred hairy 

 corymbs, with linear-obovate to linear glandular bracts and 



