ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL 68 



Leaves glabrous, thin, ovate or broadly ovate, the blades 3-5 

 cm long, rounded or truncate at the broad serrate base, 3-4 

 pairs of short acute lobes, finely and sharply serrate. Inflor- 

 escence a many-flowered very compound glabrous drooping 

 corymb; stamens small, usually 5-8. Fruit, borne in large 

 compact compound drooping clusters, is oblong, 11-13 mm 

 long, 9-10 mm thick, bright scarlet, sparingly pruinose, ripens 

 about the the first of October and at once falls; lobes very 

 long and narrow, usually entire, spreading, or are with decid- 

 uous tips and keeled base; flesh thick, pale yellow, white or 

 pink, at length soft and pulpy, seed 3, rounded on the 

 slightly grooved back, small, 5-6 mm long. 

 Sandusky, Ohio; E. Mosely and W. W. Ashe. 



Crataegus marcida. Arborescent, 3-4 m high, with hori- 

 zontal branches, and red-brown glabrous sparingly armed 

 twigs. Leaves thick, firm, dark green and lucid above, gla- 

 brous, ovate, narrowed to the acute point from the broad 

 rounded base, few shallow lobes, sharply doubly serrate, 4-6 

 cm long, the lower pairs of thin veins, arched. Inflorescence 

 a large compound many-flowered glabrous corymb; stamens 10. 

 Fruit, borne in large loose compound drooping corymbs, is 

 depressed globose, 13-15 mm thick, 11-12 mm long, dark 

 crimson with green apex, glaucous, lobes sub-entire, spread- 

 ing from a broad base; flesh deep orange, firm and juicy; seed 

 usually 4, shallow groved on the back. 



Ohio: Leverettsburg, W. W. Ashe; Sandusky, E Mosely 

 and W. W. Ashe; Garrettsville, R. J. Webb and W. W. Ashe. 

 This beautiful thorn will probably prove to be common 

 throughout Northern Ohio. 



Crataegus pkopinqua. Arborescent in habit, 2-3 m high, 

 branches slender, spreading, twigs slender, glabrous, red- 

 brown, armed with slender 3-4 cm-long thorns. Leaves gla- 

 brous, thin but firm, light green, broadly ovate or rhombic, 

 rounded or cuneate at the subentire base, the blades 3-5 cm 

 long, very few shallow ascending lobes and deeply impressed 

 straight ascending primary veins; sharply doubly serrate. 



