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young, 2.5-3 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, 

 usually rounded at the base, more deeply lobed, and often 5-6 cm 

 long and wide. Flov/ers 2-2.4 cm in diameter, on long slender 

 pedicels, in mostly 4-10-flowered lax corymbs, the lower peduncles 

 from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the 

 lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, short, acuminate, entire 

 or occasionally dentate near the middle, reflexed after anthesis ; 

 stamens 20; anthers faintly tinged with pink; styles 3-5. Fruit 

 ripening at the end of October, on stout erect pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, short- oblong to subglobose or often rather broader 

 than long, slightly angled toward the base, dark red, pruinose, 1.2- 

 1.4 cm in diameter; calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity 

 tomentose in the bottom, and small spreading persistent lobes; 

 flesh thin, tinged with red, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3-5, acute at the 

 ends or rounded at the apex, rounded and slightly grooved on the 

 back, 6.5-7 "^i^'^ long, and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 3-4 m high, with numerous small stems, 

 ascending branches, and slender nearly straight branchlets dark 

 orange-green tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dark 

 chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by small dark lenticels in their 

 first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and armed 

 with stout slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining spines 3-4 

 cm long. 



Rich hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell ( )^- 86, type), 

 October 20, 1906, June 8, 1907. 



Crataegus amoena Sargent 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^97), October 

 28, 1906, June 5, 1907; ( ;^ 38), October i, 1905, June 2, 1907; 

 (#89), October 28, 1906, June 8, 1907; also at Niagara Falls, 

 New York. 



Crataegus gracilis Sargent 



Rich hillsides. Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^4o). May 

 26, 1906, June 1907. 



Crataegus ramosa n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves. 

 Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded or abruptly cuneate at 

 the broad base, finely doubly serrate, and divided into 3 or 4 pairs 

 of short broad acuminate lobes ; when they unfold deeply tinged 

 with red, villose above and furnished below with axillary tufts of 



