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hairy pedicels, broadly obovoid, occasionally slightly decurrent 

 on the pedicel, scarlet, very lustrous, marked by few large white 

 dots, slightly pubescent at the ends, 1.8 to 2 cm long and 1.6 

 to 1.8 cm in diameter, villose at the base of the little enlarged 

 calyx with a deep narrow cavity pointed in the bottom, and 

 erect- and incurved often deciduous lobes densely villose on the 

 inner surface: flesh yellow, dry and mealy, of good flavor; nut- 

 lets four or five, placed above the middle of the fruit, broad and 

 rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the base, rounded 

 and slightly grooved on the back, 9 to 10 mm long and 5 to 6 

 mm wide, the conspicuous hypostyle extending nearly to the 

 base of the nutlet. 



A round-topped shrub 3 to 4 m high, with numerous stout 

 erect stems and branches and slender slightly zigzag branchlets, 

 light orange-green and thickly covered when they first appear 

 with long white hairs, glabrous, light orange-brown, lustrous 

 and marked by dark lenticels in their first autumn and light 

 brown the following year, and armed with straight or slightly 

 curved dark red-brown shining spines 2.^ to 5 cm long. 



Roadsides and rocky pastures between Jordanville and Mud 

 lake, on the headwaters of the Susquehanna river. Herkimer 

 county: J. A'. Haberer (no. 2450, type), June 16 and October 19, 

 1907: Haberer. Dunbar and Sargent. September 28, 1912. 



This handsome shrub is named in memory of Edwin Hunt 

 (1837-80), for many years professor of natural sciences in the 

 Utica Free Academy, a successful teacher of botany and a care- 

 ful and industrious student of the flora of central Xew York. 



Crataegus radians Sargent 



X. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 64 (1908). 

 Rochester. 



Crataegus fulleriana Sargent 



Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. in (1903). 

 Rochester. 



DILATATAE 



Crataegus dilatata Sargent 



Bot. Gazette XXXI. 9 (1901) ; Silva X. Am. XIII, 113. t. 672; X. Y. State 

 Mus. Bui. 105. 63 (1906). 



Thompsons lake near Albany. Gansevoort : also New England 

 and Province of Quebec. 



