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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Crataegus gloriosa n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, gradually narrowed and rounded or 

 abruptly concave-cuneate at the entire base, coarsely doubly serrate 

 above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 

 pairs of stout acuminate spreading lateral lobes; more than half 

 grown when the flowers open" from the 20th to the end of May and 

 then yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs and 

 paler and slightly hairy along the midribs and primary veins below, 

 and at maturity thin, slightly convex, dark green and scabrate on 

 the upper surface, pale yellow-green and often still slightly hairy 

 on the thin yellow midribs and primary veins below, 6-8 cm long 

 and 5-7 cm wide; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the 

 apex, sparingly villose on the upper side while young, often becom- 

 ing glabrous, occasionally glandular, 3-4 cm in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots thicker, rounded or abruptly cuneate at the base, 

 more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, often 10-12 cm long 

 and 9-10 cm wide, with prominent midribs and veins, and stout 

 glandular petioles. Fjowers 2.2-2.4 cm in diameter, on long slender 

 slightly villose pedicels, in wide erect or spreading io-15-flowered 

 corymbs, with oblong-obovate to linear glandular rose colored bracts 

 and bractlets often persistent until the flowers open; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, glabrous, tinged with red, the lobes abruptly 

 narrowed from broad bases, large, acuminate, coarsely glandular 

 serrate, glabrous on the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, 

 reflexed after anthesis ; claws of the petals concave and forming 

 conspicuous cavities ; stamens 7-10 ; anthers light pink ; styles 3-5, 

 surrounded at the base by a wide ring of long white hairs. Fruit 

 ripening the middle of September, on stout slightly hairy reddish 

 pedicels, in few- fruited erect or spreading clusters, short-oblong, 

 broad and truncate at the apex, sometimes slightly narrowed below 

 and then often unsym.metrical at the base by the development of a 

 mammillate process adnate to the pedicel, deep crimson, very lus- 

 trous, marked by large pale dots, 1.8-2.2 cm long and 1.5-1.8 cm in 

 diameter ; calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity, and erect and 

 incurved persistent lobes; flesh thick, yellow, sweet, very juicy, of 

 excellent flavor ; nutlets 3-5, acute at the apex, rounded and slightly 

 ridged on the back, 6-7 mm long, and 3-4 mm wide 



A tree often 8-9 m high, with a tall trunk covered with pale close 

 bark, and sometimes 3 dm in diameter, spreading and ascending 

 branches forming a broad symmetrical round-topped head, and 



