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drooping pedicels, ripening late in September and falling 

 with and before the leaves, is oblong, 14-18 mm long, 12-15 mm 

 thick, full and rounded at the ends, dark dull red, mottled 

 with orange at apex, capped by the long narrow brown 

 spreading or ascending lobes which are finely and sharply 

 serrate above the middle; flesh firm, white, juicy and sweet, 

 seed 4-5, 7-8 mm long, narrowed at base, the face narrow. 



Summerville, St. Clair Co., Mich. W. W. Ashe, Oct., 1902; 

 C. K. Dodge and W. W. Ashe, Oct. 1903; C. K. Dodge, May, 

 1903. 



Crataegus perlevis. A shrub seldom 3 m high, with 

 ascending branches and purple-brown twigs, armed with 

 numerous 2-5 cm-long thorns. Mature leaves glabrous, pale 

 green, thin but firm, broadly to narrowly ovate, 3-5 cm long, 

 2.5-5 cm wide, rounded at the broad base, 3 to 4 pairs of short 

 acute lobes, sharply and finely serrate; petiole short but 

 slender. Flowers, appearing the middle of May in glabrous, 

 many-flowered compound corymbs, are about 15 mm wide; 

 stamens 8-10: anthers light red-purple. Fruit, ripeniug late 

 in September and falling in September and October with and 

 after the leaves, borne in small compound or simple clusters 

 on very slender, rather long pedicels, is pyriform, obovate or 

 rarely oblong, 11-13 mm long, 8-12 mm thick, dark dull red 

 or scarlet, the apex usually much blotched with orange or 

 russet, the narrow entire glabrous lobes short-stalked and 

 appressed. 



Berks County, Pennsylvania. Sept., 1901, W. W. Ashe; 

 May and Sept., 1902, May and Sept., 1903, C. L. Gruber; W. 

 W. Ashe, Sept., 1903. 



Crataegus otiosa. A much branched shrub 3 m in 

 height with a large spreading crown, and slender glabrous, 

 dull red-brown twigs sparingly armed with 2 cm long thorns. 

 Leaves glabrous, rather firm, broadly oval to ovate, the blades 

 4-6 cm long, 3.5-5 cm wide, truncate to broadly cuneate at 

 base, sharply doubly serrate; many pairs of short broad 

 ascending lobes from near the base; petiole slender, 2-3.5 



