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hairy while young, becoming glabrous, tinged with rose color in the 

 autumn, 1.5-2 cm in length; leaves on vigorous shoots nearly or- 

 bicular, coarsely serrate, and more deeply lobed, with broad acu- 

 minate lobes, subcoriaceous, 5-') cm in diameter, with thick midribs 

 and stout rose-colored petioles conspicuously glandular through the 

 season. Flowers on long slender villose pedicels, in usually 10 to 

 12-flowered hairy corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of 

 upper leaves; calyx tube narrowly obconic, slightly hairy, the lobes 

 slender, elongated, acuminate, minutely glandular serrate above 

 the middle, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the inner 

 surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pale yellow; 

 styles two or three. Fruit ripening from the middle of September 

 to the first of October, on long villose pedicels, in drooping usually 

 five or six-fruited clusters, oval or slightly obovate, with a deep 

 depression at the insertion of the stalk, dark crimson, lustrous, 

 marked by numerous small dark dots, hairy specially at the ends, 

 1. 2-1. 5 cm long and 7-12 mm wide; calyx little enlarged, with a 

 broad shallow cavity, and closely appressed lobes often persistent 

 on the ripe fruit; flesh thick, firm, deeply tinged with red; nutlets 

 usually three, gradually narrowed and rounded at the ends, rounded 

 and only slightly ridged on the back, with a low broad ridge, 6-7 

 mm long and about 4 mm wide. 



A shrub 2-3 m high, with intricately branched ascending stems 

 covered below with dark scaly bark, and slender slightly zigzag 

 branehlets marked by numerous oblong pale lenticels, dark orange- 

 green and villose-pubescent when they first appear, soon becoming 

 glabrous, dark orange-brown during their first season and lighter the 

 following year, and armed with few spines or sometimes unarmed. 



Roadsides, North Albany and Wynantskill. Not common. 

 Charles II. Peck ( #18 E, type), May, September and October. 



Crataegus illuminata n. sp. Sarg. 



Leaves rhombic to oblong obovate, acuminate, gradually nar- 

 rowed and concave cuneate at the entire base, finely, often doubly 

 serrate above, with glandular incurved teeth, and slightly divided 

 above the middle into numerous short wide lobes, at maturity thin, 

 glabrous, yellow green and very lustrous on the upper and pale on 

 the lower surface, 4-6 cm long ami 3.5-4 cm wide, with slender yel- 

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

 of the lobes; petioles slender, narrowly wing-margined at the apex, 

 grooved on the upper side, glabrous, 2-2.5 cm m length; leaves on 

 vigorous shoots ovate, acuminate, concave cuneate at the base, 



