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stamens 20; anthers pale pink; styles three to five. Fruit ripening 

 about the 20th of October and soon falling, on long slender drooping 

 pedicels, usually in five to seven-fruited clusters, globose to de- 

 pressed-globose, angular reddish and pruinose when fully grown, 

 becoming scarlet and lustrous at maturity, 1.3-1.5 cm in diameter; 

 calyx prominent, with a short tube, a wide shallow cavity, and 

 spreading lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle, their 

 tips usually deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, reddish, of a 

 pleasant flavor; nutlets three to five, full and rounded at the base, 

 acute or rounded at the apex, very prominently ridged on the back, 

 with a broad deeply grooved ridge, 7-8 mm long and about 5 mm 

 wide. 



An intricately branched shrub 3-5 m high, with several stout 

 ascending and spreading stems covered below with dark brown 

 scaly bark, and stout zigzag branchlets marked by numerous small 

 lenticels, dark orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, 

 becoming light red brown in their first winter and brown or ashy 

 gray the following year, and armed with many small straight red 

 brown spines 2-3 cm long. 



Menands, Troy road, Albany co., Charles H. Peck (#75, type), 

 May and October 1903; North Albany, (# 4 B), May and October 

 1903, June 1904. 



This species is named in memory of Elliot C. Howe (1828-1899), 

 author in connection with Dr H. C. Gordinier of a Flora 0} Rensse- 

 laer County [see Bui. Torrey Bot. Club, xxvi. 251]. 



Crataegus casta n. sp. Sarg. 

 Leaves ovate to oval, acuminate, gradually or abruptly narrowed 

 and concave cuneate or broad and rounded at the entire base, 

 sharply doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and 

 slightly divided into numerous small acuminate spreading lobes, 

 nearly half grown when the flowers open the middle of May and 

 then membranaceous, light yellow green and glabrous with the 

 exception of a few hairs at the base of the upper side of the midribs, 

 at maturity thin, light blue green, smooth and lustrous on the 

 upper and dull blue green on the lower surface, 5-6 cm long and 4-5 

 cm wide, with thin yellow midribs, and four or five pairs of slender 

 primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the largest 

 lobes; petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, spar- 

 ingly villose on the upper side while young, soon glabrous, 2-3.5 cm 

 in length. Flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter, on slender glabrous 

 pedicels, in usually five to six-flowered compact corymbs, with 



