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cm long. The flowers, appearing about May 20th in simple 

 glabrous, 3-5-flowcred cymes, are about 24 mm wide; stamens 

 20, anthers purple. The fruit, solitary or in few-fruited clus- 

 ters on strict slender 1.5 to 2 cm-long- pedicels, is obovate, 

 12-14 mm thick, green mottled with russet; cavity ver} r broad, 

 the short broad entire lobes reflexed; the tube long projecting 

 or often deciduous; flesh hard and green, seed 4-5, small. 6 

 mm long, lateral faces broad and flat. 



St. Clair County. Michigan. Not common. W. W. Ashe 

 and C. K. Dodge, Oct., 1902; C. K. Dodge May 23, 1903, Oct., 

 1903. 



BOYNTONIANAE. 



Crataegus reses. A many-stemmed shrub, forming thick- 

 ets about 2 m high, the rather stout chesnut twigs glabrous, 

 and like the stems almost unarmed. Leaves glabrous, thick, 

 soft, very dark green above, very pale beneath, the blades 

 elliptic or ovate or oblong ovate, 6-9 cm long, 4-6 cm wide, 

 gradually narrowed from near the middle to the narrow 

 rounded base, crenate, 2-3 pairs of short broad obtuse notches 

 above the middle, turning red bronze or yellow and falling- 

 late in autumn; petiole short and stout, winged above. Flow- 

 ers appear about the middle of May in simple long-pedicelled 

 glabrous 5-10-flowered cymes; stamens 10; anthers cream. 

 Fruit ripening in October and falling largely after the leaves, 

 borne in 1-5 fruited clusters, on long stout, often strict pedi- 

 cels, is subglobose, usually slightly narrowed at the base, 

 13-16 mm thick, dark red mottled with russet or green, dull 

 and glaucous, or glossy, capped by the oblong, coarsely glan- 

 dulai serrate glabrous lobes borne on the projecting tube, or 

 often lobes deciduous; flesh firm, orange or reddish, bitter; 

 seed usually 4-5, 7-8 mm long, shallow 1-3 grooved on the 

 back. 



Pennsylvania, Berks County: C. L. Gruber and W. W. 

 Ashe, Sept., 1903; C. L. Gruber, May, 1903. 



