REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I907 99 



long, slender, red and glandular at the acuminate apex, entire or 

 minutely glandular dentate, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 8-10; 

 anthers pale rose color; styles 3 or 4. Fruit ripening at the 

 end of September, on long drooping reddish pedicels, in few-fruited 

 clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, lus- 

 trous, marked by large pale dots, i-i.i cm long and 8-9 mm in 

 diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and 

 spreading often incurved persistent lobes; flesh thin, light yellow; 

 nutlets 2-4, gradually narrowed and rounded or acute at the ends, 

 ridged on the back, with a low grooved ridge, 6-6.5 mm long, and 

 4-4.5 mm wide. 



A shrub 4-5 m high, with stems covered with greenish gray 

 bark, ascending branches, and stout nearly straight branchlets dark 

 orange-green more or less tinged with red when they first appear, 

 becoming dark chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by pale lenticels 

 in their first season and dull gray-brown the following year, and 

 armed with slender slightly curved dark red-brown shining spines 

 3-4 cm long. 



Hillsides near Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^90, type), Sep- 

 tember 2y, 1906, June 8, 1907. 



Crataegus fucata n. sp. 



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

 calyx-lobes. Leaves ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at the apex, 

 rounded or abruptly cuneate at the often glandular base, sharply 

 doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly 

 divided usually only above the middle into 3 or 4 pairs of small 

 acuminate spreading lobes; when they unfold slightly tinged with 

 red, covered above by short white hairs and glabrous below, about 

 a quarter grown when the flowers open in the last week of May 

 and then very thin, light yellow-green and still hairy on the upper 

 surface, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow-green 

 and slightly roughened above and pale bluish green below, 5-6 cm 

 long and 4^5-5 cm wide, with thin yellow midribs and primary 

 veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, glandu- 

 lar while young, with mostly deciduous glands, often rose color in 

 the autumn, 2-3 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, coarsely serrate, deeply lobed and often 

 5.5-6 cm long and broad. Flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, on 

 slender pedicels, in small compact mostly 8-io-flowered corymbs, 

 the lowest peduncle from the axil of an upper leaf; calyx-tube 



