28 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
short acute or acuminate lobes, coarsely and usually doubly serrate 
with glandular straight or incurved teeth, roughened above in early 
spring with short closely appressed pale hairs, at maturity thick and 
firm in texture, glabrous, dark green and lustrous on the upper sur- 
face, pale on the lower surface, 24 to 3 in. long, 14 to 2 in. wide, with 
slender midribs slightly impressed above and thin primary veins 
running to the points of the lobes. Flowers $ ip. in diameter in 
broad glabrous thin-branched compound many-flowered cymes; 
calyx narrowly obconic, the lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
slightly glandular-serrate, strongly reflexed after anthesis; stamens 
20; filaments slender, elongated, usually persistent on the fruit ; 
anthers small; styles 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 
hoary tomentum. Fruit erect on short stout peduncles, oblong, full 
and rounded at the ends, bright scarlet, $ in. long, and # to 4 in. 
thick; calyx cavity broad and deep, the lobes elongated, villous on 
the upper surface, irregularly glandular-serrate mostly above the 
middle, spreading or reflexed; flesh thick, light yellow, sweet and 
dry ; nutlets 3, dark colored, conspicuously ridged on the back with 
a prominent thick rounded ridge, about 1 in. long. 
A broad shrub occasionally 8 or ro feet in height with slender 
glabrous branchlets bright chestnut-brown and lustrous during their 
first season, becoming ashy gray during their second year, and armed 
with stout usually curved spines rarely more than an inch and a half 
long. Flowers at theend of May. Fruit ripens late in September 
and early in October. 
Roadsides near Middlebury, Vermont, rare and local, E. Brainerd, 
May and September, 190o. 
In the form and texture of the leaves and in their winged glandu- 
lar petioles, and in the character of the fruit, C. Brainerdi shows its 
relationship with C. coccinea of Linnaeus, but from all the other 
members of the Coccinea group which I have seen it differs in hav- 
ing 20 not ro stamens. 
ÍINTRICATAE. 
C. iNTRICATA, Lange. VERMONT, only on rocky benches of Twin 
Mountain, West Rutland, W. W. Eggleston, June and October, 1900. 
C. modesta Leaves ovate, acute, cuneate, rounded or on leading 
shoots truncate or slightly cordate and abruptly narrowed at the base, 
divided into numerous short broad acute lobes, occasionally appear- 
ing 3-lobed by the greater development of the lowest pair, sharply 
doubly serrate with minute glandular spreading teeth, in early spring 
bronze color, hirsute above with short white hairs and villose below, 
at maturity thick and firm in texture, dark yellow-green and scabrous 
on the upper surface, pale and pubescent below along the slender 
often light-red midribs and 2 or 3 pairs of prominent veins, or sca 
