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A shrub 2-3 m high, with stems covered with dark gray bark, 

 ascending branches and slender sHghtly zigzag branchlets dark green 

 and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, becoming 

 bright chestnut-brown and lustrous in their first season and dull 

 reddish brown the following year, and armed with slender straight 

 dark chestnut-brown shining ultimately dull gray spines 1.5-2 cm 

 long. 



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

 28 and October 3, 1906. 



Stamens 10 or less 

 Anthers rose color 

 Leaves smooth 



Crataegus numerosa n. sp. 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the upper surface of 

 the young leaves. Leaves oblong-ovate, long-pointed and acumi- 

 nate at the apex, abruptly concave-cuneate or occasionally rounded 

 at the entire base, coarsely often doubly serrate above, with straight 

 glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of short broad acumi- 

 nate lateral lobes ; bronze color when they unfold, about one third 

 grown when the flowers open at the end of May and then very 

 thin, dark yellow-green, smooth, lustrous and slightly hairy along 

 the midribs above and glaucous below, and at maturity thin, dull 

 yellow-green on the upper surface, very pale bluish green on the 

 lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, with slender yellow 

 midribs, and thin prim.ary veins arching obliquely to the points of 

 the lobes ; turning yellow in autumn before falling ; petioles slender, 

 slightly wing-margined at the apex, pubescent on the upper, side 

 while young, soon becoming glabrous, 2.5-3.5 cm in length. Flowers 

 1.5-2 cm in diameter, on slender pedicels, in small mostly 5-8- 

 flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper 

 leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes separated by wide 

 sinuses, short, broad, glandular and red at the acuminate apex, 

 entire or minutely glandular dentate near the base, reflexed after 

 anthesis ; stamens 10; anthers rose color; styles 3-5, usually 3 or 4, 

 surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit 

 ripening the middle of October, on long drooping pedicels, in few- 

 fruited clusters, obovate, rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed 

 and often mammillate at the base, scarlet, pruinose, marked by 

 large pale dots, about i cm long and 9-10 mm in diameter; calyx 

 little enlarged, with a short tube, a broad deep cavity tomentose in 



