1901] Sargent, — Crataegus in the Champlain Valley 27 
1899; Fairhaven, W. W. Eggleston, May and June, 1900; Vergennes, 
E. Brainerd, August, 1900; Chimney Point, Æ. Brainerd, September, 
1900; near Burlington, 4. W. Edson, June, 1900: NEW YORK, 
Crown Point, Brainerd & Sargent, September, 1900. 
C. praecox. Leaves rhomboidal, or on leading shoots nearly 
oval or ovate, acute, cuneate and decurrent at the base on the stout 
glandular petioles, divided above the middle into numerous : hort 
acute lobes, doubly serrate with broad glandular teeth except at the 
base, at the flowering time thin, yellow-green, coated above with 
short pale hairs, villose below on the slender midribs and thin 
primary veins arching to the points of the lobes; at maturity coria- 
ceous, dark green, lustrous and scabrous above, paler and yellow- 
green below, from 134 to 2 in. long and wide. Flowers in many- 
flowered broad loose villose cymes; bracts and bractlets linear- 
lanceolate to narrowly obovate, coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous ; 
calyx narrowly obconic, densely coated with long white matted 
hairs, the lobes narrow, elongated, acute, glandular-serrate, nearly 
glabrous; stamens 10; filaments slender, elongated; anthers small, 
pale yellow; styles 3 to 5. Fruit subglobose, in pendulous villose 
clusters, dark crimson, somewhat hairy with scattered pale hairs 
especially at the ends, 3 in. in diameter; calyx cavity broad and 
shallow, the lobes acute, spreading, glandular-serrate, red on the 
upper side near the base, early deciduous; flesh yellow, thick, soft 
and pulpy; nutlets 5, ridged on the back with broad high rounded 
ridges, 1 in. long. 
A shrub 8 or ro feet in height with numerous slender stems and 
zigzag lustrous orange-brown branchlets armed with numerous slen- 
der chestnut-brown spines 14 to 2 in. long. Flowers at the end of 
May. Fruit ripens toward the end of August and falls early in 
September. 
VERMONT, Marsh Hill, Ferrisburg, Æ. Brainerd, August, 1900: 
New York, Crown Point, Brainerd & Sargent, September 9, 1900: 
QuEnBEC, Caughnawaga, /. G. Jack, August, 1899, May and Septem- 
ber, 1900. 
This appears to be the Crataegus glandulosa typica of Regel, judg- 
ing by plants in the Arnold Arboretum raised from seeds received 
under that name from the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden. Regel's 
varietal name /y?za, however, had been previously used by him in 
another species and thus cannot be taken up for this plant. C. 
praecox belongs to the Coccinea group and differs chiefly from the 
C. coccinea of Linnaeus, as I understand it, in its early-ripening fruit, 
the fruit of C. coccinea and of its variety rotundifolia being almost the 
latest of the Thorn Apples of New England to ripen and fall. 
C. Brainerdi. Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, cuneate or 
rounded and decurrent at the base on the slender grooved obscurely 
glandular petioles, slightly divided above the middle into numerous 
