1901] Sargent, — Crataegus in the Champlain Valley 29 
brous over the lower surface of the leaves of vigorous shoots, from 14 
to 2 in. long and from 1 to 14 in. wide; petioles more or less winged 
above, villose, glandular, often red, from 3 to 8 in. long. Flowers 
nearly r in. in diameter on short stout pedicels in compact 3- to 6- 
flowered villose corymbs; bracts and bractlets lanceolate, conspicu- 
ously glandular-serrate with stipitate large dark glands; calyx broadly 
obconic, villose, the lobes lanceolate, glandular-serrate, coated with 
matted pale hairs; stamens ro; filaments short and stout; anthers 
large, pale yellow; styles 3, surrounded at the base by tufts of matted 
white hairs. Fruit erect on short villose peduncles, subglobose and 
flattened at the ends, or rarely oblong or pear-shaped, about $ in. 
long, green, bright yellow or orange with a red cheek, marked with 
numerous large dark spots; calyx high and prominent with a broad 
deep cavity, the lobes small, linear-lanceolate, glandular-serrate, 
spreading, mostly deciduous; flesh thick, light yellow, sweet, dry 
and mealy, nutlets 3, broad, conspicuously ridged on the back with 
broad thick ridges, 4 in. long. 
A shrub with numerous much-branched slender stems 1 to 3 feet 
in height, bright chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first sea- 
son, later becoming dull gray-brown, and armed with thin straight 
spines 3 to rj in. long. Flowers during the first week of June. 
Fruit ripens toward the end of September. 
Found only on dry rocky benches of Twin Mountain, West Rut- 
land, Vermont, growing with C. intricata, Lange, W. W. Eggleston, 
May 31, 1899, Brainerd & Egger September, 1899, Æggleston 
& Sargent, June 2, 1900. 
ANOMALAE. 
C. scabrida. Leaves oval to obovate, acuminate, gradually nar- 
rowed from near the middle to the cuneate base, divided above into 
numerous short spreading lobes, irregularly glandular-dentate nearly 
to the base, with slender midribs deeply impressed above and thin 
veins running to the points of the lobes, coated above at the flower- 
ing time with short soft pale hairs, at maturity thick and firm, dark 
green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale yellow-green and 
glabrous on the lower surface, 2 to 3 in. long and from r4 to 2 in. 
wide ; petioles slender, occasionally glandular, often slightly winged 
above, 4 to r1 in. long. Flowers ł in. in diameter, in loose broad 
thin-branched glabrous cymes; calyx narrowly obconnate, glabrous, 
the lobes linear-lanceolate, long-pointed, finely glandular-serrate, 
reflexed and bright red at the tips after anthesis; stamens 5 to 15 ; 
filaments slender, elongated; anthers small, pale yellow ; styles 3, 
surrounded by a thick tuft of pale tomentum. Fruit in loose drooping 
clusters, subglobose, scarlet 4 in. in diameter; calyx cavity broad 
and shallow, usually only the bases of the elongated reflexed lobes 
