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than at the base, ridged on the back with a high, grooved ridge, 

 6 to 7 mm long and 4 to 4.5 mm wide, the broad hypostyle ex- 

 tending nearly to the middle of the nutlet. 



An arborescent shrub 3 to 4 m high, with stems covered with 

 brown scaly bark, and slender, slightly zigzag branchlets dark 

 orange-green and marked by pale lenticels when they first ap- 

 pear, light chestnut-brown and lustrous at the end of their first 

 season, and armed with occasional nearly straight chestnut- 

 brown shining spines 4 to 5 cm long, persistent and compound 

 on old stems and branches. 



In heavy clay soil on the Miller farm in the town of Richmond, 

 Livingston county, H. T. Brown (no. 64, type), June 4, 1906; 

 October 1, 1909. 



Crataegus pellecta Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 85 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains. 



Crataegus ramosa Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 86 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains. 



Crataegus scitula n. sp. 

 Glabrous. Leaves obovate, acuminate, gradually narrowed 

 and cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate with straight 

 glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into three 

 or four pairs of narrow acuminate lobes ; more than half-grown 

 when the flowers open in the first week of June and then yellow- 

 green and slightly tinged with red above and lustrous on the 

 upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 5 to 6 cm long and 3 to 

 4 cm wide, with thin prominent midribs and primary veins ; pedi- 

 cels slender, wing-margined at the apex, glandular early in the 

 season, 2 to 2.5 cm in length. Flowers on slender pedicels, in 

 mostly twelve- to fifteen-flowered corymbs, the lower peduncles 

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

 lobes gradually narrowed from the base, slender, acuminate, 

 glandular-serrate; stamens twenty; anthers pink; styles three to 

 five. Fruit ripening in October, on drooping red pedicels, sub- 

 globose or sometimes rather longer than broad, crimson, marked 

 by small pale dots, very pruinose, 9 to 11 mm in diameter; calyx 

 prominent, with a short tube, a narrow deep cavity pointed in 



