REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 'JT^ 



Crataegus puberis n. sp. 



Leaves rhombic to obovate, acuminate, gradually narrowed and 

 concave-cuneate at the long entire base, finely doubly serrate above, 

 with straight or incurved glandular teeth and slightly divided above 

 the middle into 4 or 5 pairs of small acuminate lobes; more than 

 half grown when the flowers open from the 20th to the 25th of May 

 and then thin, dark yellow-green and covered above by soft white 

 hairs and paler and villose below, and at maturity thin and firm in 

 texture, dark green and glabrous on the upper surface, light yellow- 

 green and nearly glabrous on the lower surface, 4.5-5.5 cm long and 

 3-4.5 cm wide, with slender slightly villose yellow midribs and 

 veins; petioles slender, broadly wing-margined at the apex, hairy 

 on the upper side, 1.5-3 cm in length. Flowers 1.2-1.3 cm in diam- 

 eter, on slender densely villose pedicels, in compact 5-10-flowered 

 corymbs, with linear glandular bracts and bractlets fading browm 

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

 obconic, thickly coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes slender, 

 acuminate, obscurely glandular serrate, glabrous on the outer, 

 sparingly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 5-7; anthers dark rose color; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at 

 the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening about 

 the middle of October, on slender slightly villose erect pedicels, in 

 few- fruited clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the apex, 

 slightly narrowed below, orange-red, lustrous, marked by gale dots, 

 1-1.3 cm long and 9-10 mm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, wdth 

 a wide shallow^ cavity, and spreading and erect or recurved lobes 

 dark red on the upper side below the middle ; nutlets 3 or 4, rounded 

 at the ends, rounded ond onty slightly grooved on the back, (>-j mm 

 long, and 4-5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes (y-y m high, with numerous stout gnarled 

 stems covered with scaly bark, spreading and ascending branches, 

 and slender nearly straight branchlets dark green and coated with 

 matted white hairs when they first appear, becoming light orange 

 color and glabrous during their first season and dull gray-brown the 

 following year, and armed with occasional very slender nearly 

 straight orange colored ultimately gray-brown spines 1-1.5 cm in 

 length. 



Borders of swamps and river bottoms in rich alluvial soil, near 

 Belfast, Allegany co., Baxter and Dewing {^^220, type). May 24, 

 September 17 and October 17, 1903. 



