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lower surface, 5-7 cm long and 4-6 cm wide, with slender yellow 

 midribs, and thin primary veins arching obliquely to the points of 

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

 nearly terete, sparingly glandular, 2-3 cm in length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots more coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, 

 usually 7-8 cm long and 6-7 cm wide. Flowers 1.5-1.7 cm in dia- 

 meter, on short slender pedicels, in long-branched many-flowered 

 compact corymbs; calyx tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes 

 slender, acuminate, glabrous, minutely glandular serrate, reflexed 

 after anthesis; stamens seven or eight, or occasionally 10; anthers 

 purple; styles two or three, surrounded at the base by a broad ring 

 of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening and falling early in October, on 

 slender drooping reddish pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short- 

 oblong to subglobose, scarlet, lustrous, marked by occasional dark 

 dots, 1. 2 -1. 4 cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep 

 narrow cavity and closely appressed lobes, dark red on the upper 

 side toward the base and mostly persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh 

 thick, juicy, dark red; nutlets two or three, gradually narrowed 

 and acute at the ends, ridged on the back, with a high broad deeply 

 grooved ridge, 6-7 mm long and about 5 mm wide. 



A shrub 3-4 m high, with erect stems covered below with blackish 

 or grayish black bark, widespreading and ascending branches, and 

 slender nearly straight branchlets marked by small pale lenticels, 

 orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, becoming bright 

 chestnut-brown and lustrous in their first winter and dull gray 

 brown the following year, and armed with numerous stout slightly 

 curved bright chestnut-brown and shining spines, 3.5-4 cm long. 



Hillsides in clay soil; North Albany, Charles H. Peck (#56, 

 type), May, August and September 1904, 1905. 



Well distinguished by its large nearly globose fruit with red suc- 

 culent flesh. 



Crataegus acuminata n. sp. Sarg. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, long-pointed and acuminate at 

 the apex, gradually narrowed and concave cuneate or broad, 

 rounded or subtruncate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate 

 above, with incurved glandular teeth, and deeply divided into three 

 to five pairs of narrow acuminate mostly spreading lateral lobes, 

 more than half grown when the flowers open from the middle to 

 the 20th of May and then membranaceous, light yellow green and 

 covered above by short white hairs, pale and glabrous below, at ma- 

 turity thin, glabrous, dark yellow green and somewhat lustrous on 

 the upper and pale on the lower surface, usually 4.5-5 cm long and 



