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Crataegus neo-baxteri n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to oval or rhombic, acuminate, cuneate and often 

 unsymmetrical at the entire base, finely serrate above, with straight 

 or incurved glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle 

 into 4 or 5 pairs of small acuminate lateral lobes ; nearly fully grown 

 when the flowers open at the end of May and then thin, yellow- 

 green, smooth and glabrous with the exception of a few hairs along 

 the upper side of the midribs, and at maturity thin but firm in tex- 

 ture, yellow-green, glabrous, 4-4.5 ^^'^ \ong and 2-3.5 ^^^ wide, with 

 slender orange colored midribs and primary veins ; petioles very 

 slender, slightly wing-margined and sometimes minutely glandular 

 at the apex, sparingly hairy along the upper side while young, be- 

 coming nearly glabrous, 2-2.5 cin in length. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in 

 diameter, on very long slender glabrous pedicels, in wide lax 7-10- 

 flowered corymbs, with linear glandular caducous bracts and bract- 

 lets, fading brown ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes 

 slender, acuminate, entire or occasionally obscurely dentate, glabrous, 

 reflexed after anthesis ; stamens 20, filaments persistent on the ripe 

 fruit ; anthers pink ; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow 

 ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening the end of September, on long 

 very slender spreading reddish pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, 

 short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, rich deep red marked 

 by large pale dots and covered by a thick glaucous bloom, 1-1.3 cm 

 long and nearly as broad ; calyx little enlarged, with a wide deep 

 cavity, and spreading and recurved lobes often deciduous from the 

 ripe fruit ; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or 4, gradually 

 narrowed and rounded at the ends, slightly ridged on the back, 6-y 

 mm long, and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 6-7 m high, with thin stems, spreading branches forming 

 a broad symmetrical head, and slender glabrous branchlets light 

 orange color when they first appear, becoming light chestnut-brown 

 and lustrous in their first season and light gray-brown the following 

 year, and armed with slender nearly straight red-brown spines 2-3 

 cm long. 



Clay banks near Tuscarora, Livingston co., Baxter and Dewing 

 (;^25i, type). May 30 and September 23, 1905. 



With this species, described by its discoverers as being " as orna- 

 mental a species as we know in the genus," I am glad to associate 

 the name of Mr M. S. Baxter, as the species which I named for him 

 in the Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science, volume 4, 

 page 107 was afterward found to have been described a few months 



