TREES AND SHRUBS. 245 



Crataegus Brockway.e, n. sp. (Anomalct.) 



Crataegus Douglasii, C. F. Wheeler, Rep. Mich. State Board Agric. 1898, 84. — Sargent, Man. 502. — Eggleston, Gray, Man. ed. 7, 

 479.— Britton & Shafer, North Am. Trees, 480 (all in so far as relates to Michigan and Ontario) (not Lindley*).' 



Crataegus brevhpma, Britton, .1/.;-.. 519 (not Douglas) (1901). 



Leaves obovate, acute or acuminate, era.iually narrowed, cuneate and entire at the base, coarsely and often doublv serrate 

 above and sharply divided above the middle into numerous short acuminate lobes ; n.-arh full\ -rown win u the tluwers own and 

 then slightly hairy above ami sparingly villose along the midribs and veins below, and at maturin thm. dark croon, lustrous and 

 scabrate on the upper surface, glabrous or still slightly villose on the lower surface, from 15 to B centimetres long and from | 



slender, slightly villose on the upper surface while young, soon g 



tres in length; leaves on vigorous shoots broadly ovate, aemmnat. . _;;,.■: , v , narrowed at the base, enarselv serrate, more do. pl\ 

 lobed, from 7 to 8 centimetres long and from 6 to 7 centimetres wide. Flowers from l.'_» to 1.5 centimetres in diameter, on I. i - 

 slender pedicels, in small mostly from five- to seven-flowered corymbs; calyx-tube broadly obooaie, the lobes gradually narrow, d 

 from the base, short, broad, acuminate, ciliate on the margins and coarsely glandular-serrate near the apex, tinged with red and 

 glabrous on the outer surface, densely villose on the inner surface, reflexed after antht »s stamens iron, live to ten ; anthers yellow 

 tinged with pink at the apex ; styles three or four. Fruit on slender drooping red pedicels. rAort oblong to ifigMb obovate, dark 

 vinous purple with a blue bloom, from 1.2 to 1.4 centimetres long; calyx little enlarged with a narrow deep cavity wide and 

 tomentose in the bottom, and erect and incurved or ■preadiag lobM : Beth thick, yellow, soft and sweet ; nutlets three or four 

 rounded at the ends, rather broader at the apex than at the base, rounded and slightly ridged M the back, occasionally marked 

 by obscure ventral depressions, the dark narrow hypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 



A shrub, sometimes 7 or 8 metres high, with several erect and spreading stems often boa 1 I to 1 1 decimetres in diameter 

 covered with dark brown or nearly black bark separating into thick platelike scales, spreading branches tearing a round-topped 



eels when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and \. n lustmus in their first season and dark brownish purple the 

 following year, and armed with numerous stout nearly straight chestnut-brown llTrimottll] |faj Iplaai boat I 5 to 

 length and long persistent on the large branches and stems ; or occasionally treelike with a siu-1 kraal 100*11] 

 ground, but occasionally several feet in height and with wide-spreading branches, blowers the end of .lime, i 

 end of August or early in September. 



Michigan: hillsides, near Clifton, Keweenaw County, very common, 0. A. Firm ,7, June 3d, issi, August :'»<>, IS'.W. August, 

 1899 (No. 116), June and August 28, 1898 (type); Thunder Bay Island. Alpina County. ('. F. Wkttkr, July 18, IMS; Mackinac 

 Island, Mackinac County, C. S. Sargent, August 22, 1911. Ontario : Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior (./. Macoun). 



This species has usually been referred to C. Douglasii, Lindley, of the northern Rocky Mountains and the northwest const 

 region. From that species it differs in the color of the fruit and in the only occasional slight depressions on the inner faces of 

 the nutlets which are often entirely wanting, and in its entirely different habit. The relationship of tBM plant is not clear, and 

 for the present, at least, it seems best to place it in the Anomaly, in spite of the color of the fruit, rather than with the Ihuiglashe, 

 which are exclusively western and in which the ventral cavities of the nut are more ooaUBOa and more developed. 



At the request of Mr. Farwell, who has seen more of this plant than any one aud has pointed out its characters and described 

 its habit, it is named for his mother, Charlotte Louise Brockway. 

 Crataegus scabera, n. sp. (Tomentosce.) 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, abruptly or gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate at the entire base, coarsely 

 often doubly serrate with apiculate glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into four or five pairs of small acumi- 

 nate lobes; more than half-grown when the flowers open and then dark yellow-green and roughened above by short hairs, and 

 villose along the midribs and veins with snow-white hairs, and at maturity thin, yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surtace, 

 paler and still villose on the lower surface and on the slender midribs and thin primary veins, from 1 to ti centimetres loag ami 

 from 3.5 to 4 centimetres wide ; petioles stout, narrowly win- margined nearly to the base, densely vilb.se, from 1 to 1..". centi- 

 metres in length ; leaves on vigorous shoots oblong-ovate, acute, concave-cuneate or rarely roended at the base, often from 7 to 

 8centimetres long, and from 6 to 0.5 centimetres wide. Flowers l.'J centimetres in diameter, 08 loaf l lta da t villose pedicels, in 

 mostly from eight- to ten-flowered hairy corymbs; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, densely villose, the lobes narrow, glandular serrate, 

 slightly villose, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens twenty; anthers small, rose-colored; styles two or three, surrounded at the base 

 by a narrow ring of white hairs. Fruit on slender drooping villose pedicels, subglobose to slightly ovoid, bright cherry-red, 

 lustrous, marked by occasional large dark dots, slightly hairy especially near the base, 1 centimetre in diameter; calyx promi- 

 nent, with abroad deep cavity pointed in the bottom, and appressed lobes hairy on the upper side and generally deciduous from 

 the ripe fruit; flesh thin, orange-colored, sweet and mealy; nutlets two or three, narrowed and rounded at the ends, broader at the 

 apex than at the base, slightly ridged on the back, from 6 to 7 millimetres long and from 4 to 5 millimetres wide, the narrow 

 hypostyle extending to below the middle of the nutlet. 



A slender arborescent shrub, from 5 to 7 metres high, with small stems, smooth pale bark, near the ground covered with small 

 appressed scales, aud slender nearly straight branchlets light reddish brown and covered when they first appear with floccose 

 hairs, pubescent or nearly glabrous at the end of their first season and dull pale gray-brown the following year, and armed with 

 numerous straight chestnut-brown shining spines from 3 to 4.5 centimetres in length. Flowers late in May. Fruit ripens early 



Missouri : low woods, along the bottoms of small streams, in gravelly soil, near Pleasant Grove, Ripley County, B. F. Busk, 

 May 20, 1900 (No. 346, type), C. 5. Sargent, September 30, 1900, B. F. Bush and C. S. Sargent (No. 6873A). C. S. S. 



