Crataegus laurentiana var. brunetiana (Sarg.) Kruschke

164	XUiodora	?«***
year, light reddish brown or gray slightly tinged with rad and lustrous
during their second season, and armed with thick nearly straight
bright chestnut-brown. shining: spines 3—4 cm, In length., Flowers
at the end of May. Fruit ripens the first of October.
Province of Quebec 3 Roadside in the Indian village of Caugh
nawaga in the Caughrtawaga Reservation* near the southern bank of
the St, 'Lawretu.ee River at the I^acMu-e- Rapids, /. G, jfeek* August
and September »899, May and September 1900«
Although still known only in a single individual, I venture to
describe this plant as it is- one of the most interesting’ and distinct of
Mr, Jack’s numerous discoveries in the neighborhood of Montreal.,,
differing as it does from, ail the other species of this group in the large
and very conspicuous bracts and bractlets of the in florescence, and
the much enlarged foliaceous lobes of the mature calyx.
Or-ataeg'tas 3Br iioetiana, n, §p* Leaves rhombic to oblong-
obovate or rarely and usually only on vigorous shoots to ovate, acute-,
mostly concave-cuneate and gradually or abruptly narrowed to the
glandular base, sharply and generally doubly serrate, with straight or
incurved teeth, tipped wit In small dark red persistent glands* and more
or less deeply divided into numerous acuminate lobes 5 as they unfold
tinged with red, and villo&e above and along the midribs and veins
below3 and when the flowers open nearly fully grown and glabrous
with the exception of a few pale hairs on the upper surface ; at
maturity subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green and lustrous above,
light yellow-green below» j'-iS cin> long, 3*5—5 cm. wide, with stout
midribs and. 4 or 5 pairs of primary veins arching to the points of
the lobes ; petioles stout, snore or ¡ess wing-margined above, glandu-
lar., with numerous small dark red glands mostly deciduous before
autumn, often bright red late in the season like the lower part of the
midrids 1 stipules oblong-obavate, rounded or acute at the apex to
lanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, caduoous. Flowers about t.B
cm. in diameter on elongated slender pedicels, in broad thin-branched
open compound many-powered, corymbs $ bracts and bractlets oblong-
obovate to lanceolate, glandular-serrate, caducous; calyx-tube nar-
rowly obconic, thickly coated with loog matted white hairs, the lobes
gradually narrowed from broad bases-, acuminate, coarsely glandular-
serrate* villose on the upper surface; stamens to ; anthers pale
yellow; styles 3. or 4, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale
tomentum. Fruit on long pedicels, in many-fruited gracefully
drooping slightly villose clusters, oblong or slightly obovate, full and
rounded, at the ends, crimson* lustrous, marked by occasional large
pale dots, *,.3 to- *,5 cm,. long, about 1 cm. thick; calyx-cavity deep
and narrow, the lobes elongated, acuminate, glandular-serrate, villose
on the upper surface* red above toward the base, closely appressed.
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Rosaceae
Crataegus brunetiana Sargent
Rhodora 5: 164. 1903.
BOTANICAL
5*ardeH
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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Lectotype (selected by J. B. Phipps, J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3(1): 240. 2009):
CANADA, Quebec, Quebec Co., Montmorency Falls, 30 May 1901,
J. G. Jack 129 (Lectotype: A).
ver. T. Zanoni, 2009
5 PM
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