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A slender tree, with wide-spreading branches, and slender zigzag glabrous light red-brown lustrous branchlets marked by null 

 pale lenticels, and dull gray-brown in their second year, and armed with very numerous straight very stout thorns pointing dow*. 

 ward from the br.ineh, chestnut-brown ami lustrous during their first season, dull gray the folkvtof jm 

 metres in length. Flowers in April. Fruit ripens in October. 



Arkansas: upland woods, near Fulton, Hempstead County. B. F. Bush, April 28, 1001 (No*. 210, 

 1002 (No. 1436, type), August 12, 1001 (No. 073), April S\, 1905 (No*. 10, 10 B)| Miller County, & R Bto* April - IfQB 

 (No. 16 A> 



Crataegus TJNIQtA, n. sp. (Crus-galli.) 



Glabrous with the exception of a few hairs on the upper side of the midribs of the young leaves and on the inner surface of the 

 calyx-lobes. Leaves oblong-obovate, acute or occasionally rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the long cuneate base, and 

 finely serrate above the middle with straight or incurved glandular teeth ; more than half-grown when the flower* open, and 

 then sparingly villose along the midribs above, and at maturity thin but tirni m texture, dark |tMB Utd rcr\ lu-tr. 

 below, from 3.5 to 4 centimetres long and from 1 to 1.5 centimetres wide, with thm midribs, and .slender primary wins mostly 

 within the parenchyma ; petioles slender, from 4 to 5 millimetres in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly . 



and more prominent veins. Flowers from 1 to 1.2 centimetres in diameter, on slender pedicels, in mostly fro,,; 

 flowered corymbs ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes short and broad, acuminate, entire m slightly dentate : 

 sparingly villose on the inner surface, retlexed after anthesis; stamens twenty ; anthers white; styles two or tl 

 Blender drooping pedicels, short-oblong, rounded at the ends, dull red, from 1 to 1.2 centimetres long, and from 7 to S millimetres 

 in diameter ; calyx prominent with a deep wide cavity broad in the bottom, and retlexed closely appressed persistent lol.es Mill 

 slightly villose on the inner surface ; flesh thin, dry and hard ; nutlets two or three, broad and rounded at the base, narrowed at 

 the apex, ridged on the back with a high wide grooved ridge, from 6 to 7 millimetres long and from 3 to 4 millimetres wide, the 

 broad conspicuous hypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 



A slender tree, with wide-spreading branches forming a flat head, and slender slightk zigzag orange or red-brown branchlets 

 unarmed or furnished with thin straight or slightly curved dark chestnut-brown shining spines from t to 'J c< 

 Flowers the middle of April. Fruit ripens in October. 



Texas: low sandy woods near Marshall, Harrison County, B. F. Bush and C. 8. Sargent, April 10, MM (t> p 

 August 8 (No. 023) and October 10,1901 (No. 1032). 



This species is interesting as the only Crus-galli species with twenty white or yellow anthers and |fctf corymbs from tho 

 region west of the Mississippi River. 1 * C. arborea Beadle from Alabama has a glabrous corymb and twenty yellow anthers. 



Crat.egus cerasoides, n.sp. (JZstivales.) 



Leaves obovate, acute, gradually narrowed, cuneate and entire at the base, and coarsely often doubly serrate above with straight 

 or incurved ghvndular teeth; when they unfold tinged with red and villose above and on the midribs; mn than half grown when 

 the flowers open, and then thin, dull bluish green and scabrate or smooth on the upper surfaee. and glabrous Via tfa 

 a few axillary persistent tufts of brown hairs on the lower surface, and at maturity MbeeiiMMM, dufc green, smooth and very 

 lustrous above, paler below, from 3 to 3.5 centimetres long and from 1.5 to 2 centimetres wide, i ith thm undnU and primary veins | 

 petioles slender, narrowly wing-margined to below the middle, from 6 to 10 millimetres m length ; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 oblong-obovate, acuminate, abruptly cuneate or rounded at the wide base, coarsely serrate, more or less deeply divided into 

 broad acuminate lateral lobes and often from 5 to 6 centimetres long and from 3 to 4 centimetres w ide. with Mont broad-winged 

 slightly glandular petioles. Flowers from 2 to 2.2 centimetres in diameter. M long slender glabrous pdfetla, in mostly four 

 or five-flowered corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed, long HMder, acuminate or 

 minutely serrate near the middle, glabrous on the outer surface, slightly villose on the inner surtaee, rellexed after anfhe-is : 



drooping pedicels, in usually one or two fruit clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, bright cherry red, about U Ulrffll ill II in di- 

 ameter •* calyx little enlarged with a deep narrow cavity wide in the bottom, and spreading and lypMW ld lobw red on the upper 

 side ; flesh thick, yellow, sweet, soft, of good flavor; nutlets five, thin and rounded at the ends, rounded and slightly grooved ,.„ 

 the back, about 5 millimetres long and 3 millimetres wide, the narrow prominent hypostyle extending to the mi. idle ot the nutlet. 



A shrub, with abroad round-topped head sometimes from 12 to 14 metres across, numerous larger,,! and - r r, ad,,,- sMns oft, n 

 10 metres high, covered with smooth pale bark separating into thin flake-like scales. > • |,r,,,v " <r:!V 



inner bark, and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets light orange-brown and marked by pale lentieels when ft*] ' r J 1 P - u - 

 becoming dark dull purple before the end of their first season and dull reddish brown the following year, and arm. d with Mh 

 straight spines from 3 to 3.5 centimetres in length. Flowers the middle of March. Fruit ripens late m .Inly and to Amrust. 



Florida : low, wet, often inundated prairies, near Seville, Volusia County, A.H. Curtiss, June and July, 1901 (No. 8842, type), 



C "'nufwSrffrdt ^ 'tnkf!pecie°s, which is largely collected and used in jellies, reminded Mr. Curtiss of red cherries. Its late 

 ripening is unusual for a species of the ^stivales, of which this is probably the largest and handsomest species. 



CR Gl T atr 8 rtrthe^e^tion offhT to on the young leaves and calyx-lobes. Leaves obovate, rounded or acute at the apex 

 i base, and finely crenately serrate usually only above the middle; when they unfold sparingly villose above 

 leaves below, about one-third grown when the flowers open, and at maturity coriaceous, dark yellow-green, 

 trous on the upper surface, pale yellow-green and still hairy in the axils of the veins on the lower surface, 



