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with large acuminate glandular rose-colored conspicuous bracts 

 and bractlets deciduous before the flowers open; calyx tube nar- 

 rowly obconic, coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes long, 

 slender, acuminate, coarsely glandular serrate usually only above 

 the middle, puberulent on the outer and covered with matted hairs 

 on the inner surface; stamens 10-20; anthers small, light pink; 

 styles two to four. Fruit ripening the first of October, on slender 

 drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose to short 

 oblong, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, 8-10 mm in 

 diameter; calyx conspicuous, with a narrow deep cavity and foli- 

 aceous spreading or reflexed coarsely glandular serrate lobes; flesh 

 thick, orange color, sweet and succulent; nutlets two to four, full 

 and rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a high narrow 

 often irregular slightly grooved ridge, deeply penetrated on the 

 inner faces by broad deep cavities, about 7 mm long and 4 mm wide. 



A broad shrub 3-4 m high, with numerous erect stems and stout 

 branchlets, light orange-green and glabrous when they first appear, 

 bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their first winter, 

 and dull dark reddish brown the following year, and armed with 

 many stout nearly straight purplish shining spines 3-3.5 cm in 

 length. 



Near the tollgate on the Troy road, North Albany, Peck and 

 Sargent (# 1, type), October 2, 1902; Charles H. Peck, May and 

 October 1903; also near pulp mill station, New Haven, Addison 

 co. Vt. Brainerd and Sargent (4 15 A), September 1900; Ezra 

 Brainerd, October 1900 and May and September 1901. 



In the Vermont plant the calyx lobes, specially before anthesis, 

 are rather longer, the flowers are somewhat larger, and the leaves 

 are broader in proportion to their length than those of the Albany 

 plant, but the two appear to belong to one species peculiar in the 

 tomentose covering of the entire lower surface of the leaves. 



Stamens 10 or less 



Anthers rose color 



Crataegus beckiana n. sp. Sarg. 



Leaves broadly ovate to obovate, acute and often short-pointed 

 at the apex, concave cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate 

 above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and slightly divided above 

 the middle into four or five pairs of short acuminate lobes, about 



