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branches, and slender slightly zigzag glabrous branchlets, light 

 orange green when they first appear, becoming light chestnnt- 

 ^ brown, lustrous and marked by pale lenticels in their first season, 

 and dull reddish brown the following year, and armed with slender 

 straight or slightly curved chestnut-brown spines 2.5-3 cm long. 



Rocky pastures and margins of woods ; New Hartford, Oneida co. 

 J. V. Haberer ( j) 2410, type), May 20 and Septen.ber 28, 1903; 

 C. IT. Peck, September 11, 1906. 



This species, remarkable in its broad slightly lobed leaves and 

 early ripening fruit, is named for its discoverer, Joseph Valentine 

 Plaberer M. D., an enthusiastic student of the flora of Herkimer, 

 Oneida and Madison counties, the founder of the Asa Gray 

 Botanical Club of Utica in 1886 and from that time to the present 

 its president. 



Crataegus noveboracensis n. sp. Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, abruptly concave cuneate at the entire 

 base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and 

 deeply divided into five or six pairs of narrow acuminate spreading 

 lobes, more than half grown when the flowers open at the end of 

 May and then thin, yellow green and covered above by short soft 

 white hairs and paler and glabrous below, and at maturity thin but 

 firm in texture, dark yellow green and lustrous on the upper surface 

 and pale yellow green on the lower surface, 4.5-6.5 cm long and 

 4-5 cm wide, w^ith slender yellow midribs, and thin primary veins 

 arching obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly 

 wing-margined at the apex, villose on the upper side while young, 

 becoming glabrous, sparingly glandular, 1-2 cm in length ; leaves 

 on vigorous shoots thicker, sometimes rounded or subtruncate at 

 the broad base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, often 

 7-8 cm long and 6-7 cm wide, with stouter broadly winged petioles. 

 Flowers 1.2-1.4 cm in diameter, on slender slightly villose pedicels, 

 in usually 7-11-flowered lax corymbs; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 

 coated especially near the base with long scattered white hairs, 

 the lobes gradually narrowed, slender, acuminate, glandular serrate, 

 glabrous on the outer, villose on the inner surface, reflexed after 

 anthesis ; stamens 15-20; anthers pale yellow; styles 4 or 5. Fruit 

 ripening the middle of September, on slightly hairy reddish ped- 

 icels, in usually 5-7-fruitcd drooping clusters, subglobose to short 

 oblong, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, marked by 

 large pale dots, about i cm in diameter ; flesh thin, yellow, dry and 

 mealy; nutlets 4 or 5, narrowed and rounded at the ends, slightly 



