REPORT OP THE STATE BOTANIST 1905 



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season, sparingly glandular near the apex, deep rose color in the 

 autumn, 1.5-2 cm long; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular, 

 caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded at the base, coarsely 

 serrate, more deeply lobed, coriaceous,- 7-8 cm long and 5-6 cm wide, 

 with prominent midribs and veins. Flowers 1.8-2 cm in 

 diameter, on short pedicels thickly clothed with long white hairs, 

 in compact many-flowered hairy corymbs, with linear glandular 

 bracts and bractlets fading rose color ; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 

 covered with long matted white hairs, the lobes slender, acuminate, 

 glandular, villose pubescent, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; 

 anthers rose color; styles three or four, surrounded at the base by a 

 narrow ring of white hairs. Fruit ripening early in September, on 

 short hairy pedicels, in 6 to 10-fruited erect or spreading clusters, 

 pyriform till nearly grown, subglobose to short-oblong when ripe, 

 dark crimson, lustrous, marked by numerous large pale dots, 1.2-1.5 

 cm in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a broad deep cavity, 

 and usually erect or incurved villose lobes mostly persistent on the 

 ripe fruit; flesh thick, yellow, rather juicy; nutlets usually 3, 

 gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, slightly ridged on the 

 back, with a low narrow ridge, about 7 mm long and 4 mm wide. 



A round headed shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous stout stems 

 covered below with dark brown scaly bark and light olive-green 

 above, and slender slightly zigzag branchlets marked by many 

 small oblong pale lenticels, thickly coated when they first appear 

 with matted pale hairs, light chestnut-brown and very lustrous 

 during the first season and darker colored the following year, and 

 armed with numerous stout nearly straight purplish shining spines 

 2.5-3.5 cm long. 



Low moist ground; Menands, near the Erie canal, Charles H. 

 Peck (#51 mc, type), May and September 1904, and on the Golf 

 grounds, Peck and Sargent (#53), August 1905. 



Crataegus spissiflora Sarg. 

 Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. iv. 112 (1903). 



Menands, Charles H. Peck (#77), May and September 1904; 

 also at Rochester N. Y., and in Ontario. 



FLABELLATAE 



Stamens 5 to 7 



Anthers rose color 



Crataegus holmesiana Ashe 



Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. xvi. pt ii, 78 (1900). — Sargent, Silva N. Am. 

 xiii. 119, t. 676; Man. 449, f. 366. 



