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the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens twenty; anthers 

 rose color; styles three to five. Fruit ripening the end of Septem- 

 ber on drooping pedicels, subglobose, truncate at the ends, slightly 

 angled, scarlet, lustrous, marked by small pale dots, 1.4 to 1.5 cm 

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

 spreading and erect lobes often deciduous from the ripe fruit; 

 flesh orange color, of good flavor; nutlets three to five, rounded at 

 the ends, broader at the base than at the apex, ridged on the back 

 with a wide grooved ridge, slightly and irregularly depressed on the 

 inner faces, 7 to 8 mm long and 4 to 5 mm wide, the prominent 

 hypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 



An arborescent shrub or small tree sometimes 7 m high, with a 

 stem 15 cm in diameter at the base, bark covered with small dark 

 gray-brown scales, stout pale gray branches, and slender slightly 

 zigzag branchlets light orange-color when they first appear, becom- 

 ing light chestnut-brown, lustrous, and marked by numerous pale 

 lenticels at the end of their first season, and armed with stout 

 straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown shining spines 3.5 to 4.5 

 cm long. 



Top of Falls hill south of the Mohawk at Little Falls, J. V. Ha- 

 berer (no. 2464, type), June 12, 1912; Haberer, Dunbar and Sar- 

 gent, September 2J. 1912. 



Crataegus dunbarii Sargent 



Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. IV. 126 (1903) ; N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 

 76 (1908). 



Rochester, Hemlock lake, Adams Basin and Buffalo. 



Crataegus inopinata Sargent 

 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 122. 108 (1908). 

 Coopers Plains. 



Crataegus scabrida Sargent 



Rhodora III. 29 (1901) ; Silva X. Am. XIII. 133. t. 677; N. Y State Mus. 

 Bui. 122. 76 (1908). 



Albany, Little Falls, Xew Hartford, Mohawk, near Utica, Hem- 

 lock lake, Belfast : also in New England, the Province of Quebec 

 and southern Ontario. 



Crataegus affinis Sargent 

 Ontario Xat. Sci. Bui. 4. 71 (1908). 

 Piseco. Hamilton co. : also near Toronto. Ontario. 



