26 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
stamens s, slender, incurved ; anthers comparatively large; styles 3, 
surrounded by a thin tuft of hoary tomentum. Fruit oblong, full and 
rounded at the ends, dark crimson, lustrous, marked with minute pale 
lenticels, usually about 2 in. long and § in. thick, the calyx prominent 
and enlarged with elongated strongly incurved lobes persistent or 
sometimes deciduous; flesh yellow, thick, dry and mealy; nutlets 3, 
ridged on the back with a broad ridge } in. long. 
A tree 12 to 15 feet in height with a trunk s or 6 in. in diameter, 
stout branches forming a broad erect head irregular in outline, and 
slender glabrous branchlets marked with large pale lenticels, during 
their first season bright chestnut-brown, or in the case of vigorous 
shoots light orange-green, ashy gray in their second year, and armed 
with slender straight or incurved spines from 1 to 14 in. long. 
Flowers about May 20. Fruit ripens the middle of September. 
Vermont, Bennington, and West Rutland, W. W. Eggleston, May 
and September, 1899; Middlebury, Ferrisburg and West Rutland, 
E. Brainerd, August and September, 1900. 
DILATATAE. 
C. DILATATA, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 9 (1901). VERMONT, 
Ferrisburg and Middlebury, Æ. Brainerd, May and August, 1900: 
PRUINOSAE. 
C. pRuINosA, Wendland. VERMONT, West Rutland, W. W. 
Eggleston, September, 1899, May, 1900; New Haven, Æ. Brainerd, 
June and October, 1900; near Burlington, 4. W. Edson, June, 1900; 
New York, Crown Point, Brainerd & Sargent, September, 1900. 
'TOMENTOSAE. 
C.°MACRACANTHA, Lindley. VERMONT, near Burlington, Z. KA. 
Jones, October, 1899; Middlebury, Æ. Brainerd, September, 1900: 
New York, Crown Point, Brainerd & Sargent, September, 1900. 
C. sUCCULENTA, Link. Common. VERMONT, Charlotte, C. G. 
Pringle & F. H. Horsford, June and September, 1879; Middle- 
bury, Ferrisburg, New Haven, Waybridge, W. Rutland, Æ. Brainerd, 
1900. 
COCCINEAE. 
C. COCCINEA var. ROTUNDIFOLIA, Sargent, Bot. Gazette, xxxi. 
14 (1901). VERMONT, shores of Connecticut River, Lemington, W. 
W: Eggleston, August, 1899; Orwell, W. W. Eggleston, September, 
