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cm long. Flowers, appearing the first week in May in glab- 

 rous simple or compound compact corymbs, are from 15-20 

 mm wide; stamens 5-10, usually 8-10; anthers bright red- 

 purple. Fruit, ripening early in September and gradually 

 falling before the leaves, borne in simple few-fruited clusters 

 on slender 1-2 cm-long- pedicels, is subglobose or short cvlin- 

 drous, 14-18 mm thick and long-, red scarlet blotched with 

 olive or russet, sparingly glaucous, capped with the narrow 

 glabrous entire or serrulate spreading or erect lobes; flesh 

 soft, thick, edible, acid, orange, often tinged with pink; seed 

 3-4, 6-8 mm long, deeply grooved on the back. 



Pennsylvania, Berks count}-, frequent. W. W. Ashe and 

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

 and Sept., 1902, and May, June and Sept., 1903. 



CratakCxUS miniata. A shrub 2-3 m in height with ascend- 

 ing- branches, with dark brown glabrous slender twigs armed 

 with 3-4-cm long- slender thorns. Leaves thin, glabrous, 

 dark green, oval or broadly oval, 4-6 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, 

 rounded at the usually broad base, abruptly acuminate at 

 apex, 4-6 pairs of very short lobes beginning near the base. 

 Flowers, appearing about the middle of May in glabrous com- 

 pound rather small corymbs, are about 15 mm wide; stamens 

 5-10, usually 8; anthers pink. Fruit, borne in small compact 

 usually compound clusters, ripening- early in September and 

 falling with the leaves, is oblong, 12-14 mm long, 9-13 mm 

 thick, scarlet, sometimes spotted with olive or russet at the 

 apex, glossy, capped with the small glabrous narrow entire 

 reflexed or spreading- lobes, or lobes deciduous; flesh yellow or 

 pinkish; seed 2-3, 6-7 mm long, grooved on the back. 



Pennsylvania, Berks county. C. L. Gruber and W. W. 

 Ashe. 



Crataegus kufipes. A shrub about 2 m in height with 

 glossy slender purplish-red glabrous nearly straight twigs, 

 armed with numerous 2-4 cm-long thorns. Leaves thin but 

 firm, bright green, lucid, when young silky, pubescent above, 

 but at length glabrous, the blades ovate to oblong ovate, 5-7 



