30 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
persistent at maturity; flesh yellow, thick, dry and mealy; nutlets 3, 
thick, rounded and prominently ridged on the back j in. long. 
An intricately branched tree 15 to 20 feet in height with a trunk 6 
or 8 in. in diameter, spreading horizontal branches forming a broad 
round-topped head, or often shrubby, and stout, slightly zigzag gla- 
brous branchlets marked with oblong pale lenticels, dark chestnut- 
brown during their first season, becoming ashy gray during their sec- 
ond year, and armed with slender straight or curved spines from 14 
to 2 in. in length. Flowers at the end of May. Fruit ripens from 
the middle to the end of September. 
Vermont, Bennington and West Rutland, W. W. Eggleston, Sep- 
tember 8, 1899, and May and September, 1900; Middlebury and 
New Haven, Æ. Brainerd, 1900: New HawrsHIRE, Troy, Æ. Z. 
Rand & B. L. Robinson (no. 674), September 23, 1899. 
C. Egglestoni. Leaves oval or on leading shoots often nearly 
orbicular, acute, rounded or cuneate at the broad base, slightly 
divided above the middle into numerous short acute lobes, coarsely 
doubly serrate with glandular teeth, dark yellow-green and rough- 
ened above with short persistent pale hairs, pale and glabrous 
below, about 2 in. long and 14 to 2 in. wide, with slender midribs 
and primary veins only slightly impressed above; petioles slender, 
deeply grooved, glandular with small scattered dark glands, more or 
less winged at the apex, reddish brown toward the base, $ in. long. 
Flowers à in. in diameter, in crowded compound many-flowered 
cymes, the slender branches and petioles covered with scattered 
long white soft deciduous hairs; calyx-tube obconic, glabrous, the 
lobes narrow, acute, glandular-serrate with minute dark red glands, 
villose on the upper surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens usually 
5, occasionally 7 or 8; filaments slender, elongated ; anthers small, 
pale rose-color ; styles 2 or 3. Fruit pendant in many-fruited clus- 
ters, oblong, full and rounded at the ends, orange-color at first when 
fully grown, at maturity bright crimson, lustrous, marked with occa- 
sional large pale dots, 4 in. long; calyx cavity deep and narrow, the 
lobes entire or slightly dentate above the middle, appressed ; flesh 
thick, yellow, sweet, dry and mealy; nutlets 2 or 3, more or less 
prominently ridged on back, $ in. long. 
A wide many-stemmed much-branched shrub occasionally fifteen 
feet in height, with slender somewhat zigzag lustrous branchlets 
marked with large pale oblong lenticels, orange-green during their 
first season, pale orange-color during their second year, and finally 
dark red-brown, and armed with numerous straight lustrous spines 
usually 4 in. in length. 
Flowers during the first week in June. Fruit ripens late in Sep- 
tember and hangs on the branches until long after the leaves have 
fallen. 
VERMONT, open grassy slopes of Bald Mountain, Shrewsbury, 
W. W. Eggleston, October, 1899, Eggleston & Sargent, June, 1900, 
