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Crataegus paineana n. sp. 



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

 Leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, finely ser- 

 rate with straight slender teeth and divided usually only above the 

 middle into short broad acute lobes ; more than half grown when the 

 flowers open about the first of June and then yellow-green and 

 slightly roughened above by short white hairs, and at maturity 

 thin, dull yellow-green on the upper surface, paler on the lower 

 surface, 4 to 5 cm long and 3 to 3.5 cm. wide, with slender midribs 

 and primary veins; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at 

 the apex, 2 to 3 cm in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots ovate, 

 abruptly acuminate, broad and rounded or cuneate at the base, 

 coarsely serrate, often deeply lobed, 1.7 to 1.8 cm long and 6 to 

 7 cm wide, their petioles stout, wing-margined to the middle, 

 rose-colored and often glandular in the autumn. Flowers on 

 long slender pedicels, in many-flowered corymbs, the much 

 elongated lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx- 

 tube narrowly obconic, tne lobes gradually narrowed from the 

 base, long and slender, entire, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 

 five to nine ; anthers rose color ; styles two to four. Fruit ripen- 

 ing at the end of September, on elongated pedicels, in many- 

 fruited drooping clusters, long-obovoid, rounded at the apex, 

 gradually narrowed to the base, scarlet, lustrous, marked by 

 small pale dots, 2 to 5 cm long and 1 cm in diameter; calyx little 

 enlarged, with a very narrow and deep cavity, the lobes appressed 

 and mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, orange- 

 colored, sweet and of good flavor ; nutlets two to four, usually three, 

 narrowed and rounded at the ends, rather broader at the apex than 

 at the base, ridged on the back with a narrow grooved ridge, 7 to 8 

 mm long and about 4 mm wide, the narrow hypostyle extending to 

 below the middle of the nutlet. 



A shrub 3 to 4 m high, with numerous erect stems and branches 

 forming an open round-topped head, and stout, slightly zigzag 

 branchlets tinged with red when they first appear, becoming dull 

 reddish or orange-brown at the end of their first season, and armed 

 with numerous stout or slender incurved chestnut-brown spines 2 to 

 4 cm long. 



Rocky upland pastures, Beaver brook valley north of the Mohawk 

 river and two or three miles east of Herkimer, very common, J. V. 

 Haberer (no. 2518, type), June 10 (the petals fallen) and Septem- 

 ber 30, 1907; Haberer, Dunbar and Sargent, September 26, 1912. 



