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anthesis ; stamens 20 ; anthers purple ; styles 2 or 3. Fruit ripening 

 the end of September, on slender slightly hairy erect pedicels, in 

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

 scarlet, very lustrous, marked by large pale dots, 7-8 mm in diame- 

 ter ; calyx little enlarged, with a broad deep cavity, and small spread- 

 ing and appressed lobes ; flesh yellow, dry ; nutlets 2 or 3, gradually 

 narrowed and rounded at the ends, rounded and slightly ridged on 

 the back, penetrated on the inner faces by deep narrow cavities, 

 4.5-5 mm long, and about 3 mm wide. 



A shrub sometimes 2 m high, with stems covered with dark 

 greenish gray bark and spreading into thickets, small ascending 

 branches, slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets light orange- 

 green and marked by pale lenticels when they first appear, light 

 chestnut-brown and very lustrous in their first and second seasons 

 and dull reddish brown the following year, and armed with numer- 

 ous stout slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 3-4 cm 

 long, compound and long persistent 'on old stems, and accrescent 

 bright rose colored very conspicuous inner bud scales deciduous 

 before the opening of the flower buds. 



Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (-'^37, type), September 21, 1905, 

 June 3, 1906. 



Stamens 10 or less; anthers pale yellow 



Crataegus ferentaria Sargent 

 Rochester Acad. Sci. Proc. IV. 135 (1903); Rhodora VII. 184 (1905). 



Hillsides, Coopers Plains, G. D. Cornell (;^22), September 21, 

 1905, June 2, 1906 ; also southern Ontario to eastern New England. 



