20 Rhodora [| FEBRUARY 
PUNCTATAE. 
C. PUNCTATA, Jacquin. The common species, often attaining, a 
large size. 
MOLLES. 
C. Champlainensis. Leaves ovate, acute, rounded, truncate, 
somewhat cordate or cuneate at the base, usually slightly divided 
into two or three pairs of narrow acute lobes, coarsely and sharply 
serrate often to the base with gland-tipped teeth, at the flowering 
time roughened above by short pale hairs and villose-pubescent 
below, at maturity thick and firm, bluish green and glabrous on the 
upper surface, yellow-green, and slightly pubescent on the lower sur- 
face of the slender midribs and remote primary veins, from 2 to 24 
in. long, from 1 to rd in. wide; petioles deeply grooved on the upper- 
side, slender, from ł to r in. in length, tomentose or often nearly 
glabrous, dull red below the middle. Flowers in compact few- 
flowered villose corymbs; bracts and bractlets lanceolate to oblan- 
ceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous; calyx densely tomen- 
tose, the lobes lanceolate, closely glandular-serrate, villose usually 
only below the middle, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; fila- 
ments slender; anthers light yellow; styles 5. surrounded by tufts 
of pale hairs. Fruit short-stalked in compact erect tomentose 
clusters, obovate to oblong, bright scarlet, marked with scattered 
pale lenticels, more or less tomentose at the ends, from 4 to § in. in 
length, 4 in. in width; calyx prominent, long-tubed, persistent, the 
lobes erect or spreading, tomentose, glandular-serrate; flesh thick, 
yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 5, 4*5. in. long, broadly ridged on the 
back. 
A tree from fifteen to twenty feet in height with a well-developed 
trunk eight or ten inches in diameter covered with red-brown scaly 
bark, stout wide-spreading branches often forming a symmetrical: 
round-topped head, and slightly zigzag branchlets marked with large 
oblong white lenticles, tomentose at first, becoming light chestnut- 
brown during the first summer and ashy gray during their second 
year, and armed with slender straight or slightly curved bright chest- 
nut-brown spines from 14 to 2 in. long. Flowers during the first 
week in June. Fruit ripens toward the end of September but 
remains on the branches until the New Year. 
Vermont, Middlebury, Æ. Brainerd, June and September, 1900: 
New York, Crown Point, Brainerd & Sargent, September, 1900: 
Province of Quesec, Chateaugay, Adirondack Junction, Caugh- 
nawaga, /. G. Jack, 1899, 1900. 
C. Champlainensis has been probably often confounded with C. 
mollis of Scheele of the central west, from which it is distinguished 
