TREES AND SHRUBS. Ji: ; 



CRAT.KGCS FLACEX9, n. Sp. (MolUs.) 



Leaves ovate, acute, cordate or abruptly euneate at the broad base, coarsely often doubly serrate with straight teeth, and 

 slightly divided into five or six pairs of short broad lateral lobes; about one-third grown when the flowers open and then thin, light 

 yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs and covered below with matted hairs most abundant n the midr.U Mi 

 veins, and at maturity thin, yellow-green and scabrate or nearly smooth on the upper surface, on the lower surface paler and 

 densely villose on the stout midribs and prominent primary veins extending to the points of the lobes, from 8 to 10 centimetres 

 long and from 7 to 8 centimetres wide; petioles slender, densely villose early in the season, becoming pubescent, .K-cvionally 

 glandular with bright red stipitate glands, from 3 to 5.5 centimetres in length ; stipules obovate, acuminate, often falcate, glan- 

 dular-serrate, villose, usually persistent until the flowers open ; leaves on vigorous shoots oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, g radually 

 narrowed and rounded at the base, more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, often from 1.1 to 1.2 decimetres lon K and from 

 8 to 9 centimetres wide. Flowers from 1.8 to 2 centimetres in diameter.on slender hairy padittl K.m uiK lax MMih flWilftsjMi 

 to twenty-flowered hairy corymbs, their bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate, glandular, MMpiMMI, pinbk I I ■ .: 

 fall ; calyx-tube narrowl.^obconic, thickly covered with matted pale hairs, the lobes slender, acuminate, glandular -. r 

 villose, reflexed after anthesis ; stameus twenty ; 



rounded and slightly ridged on the b 

 ing nearly to the base of t 



A tree, sometimes 10 metres high, with a trunk 1 metre in diameter, 

 branches forming a broad head from 8 to 10 metres across, and rather slender nearly straight branchlets light orange-brown 

 marked by pale lenticels and slightly hairy when they first appear, bright chestnut-brown, lustrous and nearly glabrous at the 

 end of their first season and dull gray-brown the following year, and unarmed, spines occasionally wcurring on the trunk and 

 large branches. Flowers about the 20th of May. Fruit ripens early in September. 



Ontario: Walpole Island in the St. Clair River, Lamberton County, C. K. Dodge, July 12, 100(1 | S 

 30, 1908 (type), September 8, 1912. Michigan : near Algonac, St. Clair County, C. K. Dodpr, September 10, 1905, May 16, 

 19— ; bottoms of Plaster Creek, south of Grand Rapids, Kent County, E.J. r«.V. May 1 I. l*M\, September I. I 

 a shrub, 3 or 4 metres high ; anthers fifteen to twenty ; branchlets furnished with stout mmiJ pities). 

 Crataegus meticulosa, n. sp. (Intricate.) 



Glabrous with the exception of a few hairs on the upper surface of the young leaves. Leaves ovate to rhombic, acuminate, 

 gradually narrowed to the slender concave-cuneate base, finely often doubly serrate with straight glandular teeth, and generally 

 slightly divided above the middle into two or three pairs of broad acute lobes; nearly fully grown when the flowers open and 

 then thin, yellow-green and slightly hairy above and paler below, and it maturity thm tmt &RD, i»A ;-■ ' ■ gn M, ■MOtk, lustrous 

 and glabrous on the upper surface, pale yellow-green on the lower surface, from 3.5 to 4.5 centimetres long and from :i It 1 

 centimetres wide, with thin yellow midribs and primary veins; petioles slender, wing-margined to below the middle, glandular 

 with minute often persistent glands, frequently rose-colored toward the base in the autumn, from 1 to LB OW ti i l ietres in length. 

 Flowers from 1.4 to 1.5 centimetres in diameter, on long slender pedicels, in compact mostly five- or six-flowered corymbs, with 

 small obovate to linear glandular bracts and bractlets fading brown and often deciduous before the flowers open ; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from the base, broad, acuminate, glandular-serrate above the middle, reflex, d 

 after anthesis ; stamens ten; anthers pale pink ; styles two or three. Fruit on long stout red erect or spreading pedicels, in fen- 

 fruited clusters, short-oblong to ovate, full and rounded at the ends, dark green when fully grown, turning (often after falling 

 to the ground) orange-red, lustrous, marked by small dark dots, from 1.2 to 1.4 centimetres lag and from 1: 

 tres in diameter; calyx prominent, with a short tube, a narrow deep cavity and small SfNadag M rtdtnd often persistent 

 lobes dark red on the upper side ; flesh thin, yellow-green, dry and mealy ; nutlets two or three, narrowed and rounded at 

 the ends, broader at the base than at the apex, ridged on the back with a narrow ridge, from 7 to 8 millimetres long and from 

 3 to 4 millimetres wide, the narrow hypostyle extending nearly to the middle of the nutlet. 



A shrub, from 1 to 2 metres high, with contorted branchlets, light orange-green tinged with red when they first appear, 

 becoming dark chestnut-brown, lustrous and marked by large dark lenticels in their first season and dull n-d-broun the fol low- 

 ing year, and armed with slender straight purplish shining spines from 3 to 4 centimetres long. Flowers the end of May. I nut 

 ripens early in October. 



Michigan : sandy bluffs on the Grand Trunk Railroad, west of Fuller Station, near Grand Raj ids, Kent County, E. J. Cole, 

 May 29 and September 28, 1901 (No. 110, type), May 27, 1901, September 10, 1902 (No. 25), May 29, 1901, September 10, 1912, 

 September 25, 1904 (No. 66), May 29 and September 29, 1904 (No. 106). 

 Crataegus tenuissima, n. sp. (Intricatce.) 



Glabrous with the exception of the hairs on the young leaves. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptical, acute at the apex, cuneate at 

 the base, finely often doubly serrate with straight glandular teeth, and divided usually only above the middle into four or five 

 pairs of short broad acute lobes ; more than half-grown when the flowers open and then thin, yellow-green, and slightly hairy on 

 the midribs above and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, yellow-green, from 5 to 6 centimetres long and from 3 to 4 

 centimetres wide, with pale prominent midribs and thin primary veins ; petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex. glandular. 

 from 1.5 to 3 centimetres in length. Flowers from 1.8 to 2 centimetres in diameter, on short slender pedicels, in small compact 

 mostly four- or five-flowered corymbs, their bracts and bractlets obovate, conspicuously glandular, persistent until the petals fall ; 



