72 Rhodora [APRIL 
PUNCTATAE. 
CRATAEGUS PUNCTATA, Jacquin, Province of Quebec, . G. Jack, 
Sept. 1887, St. Helen’s Isle, opposite Montreal, August, 1892, Levis, 
Sept. 1900, Montmorency Falls, August 1895. 
Crataegus suborbiculata. Glabrous with the exception of a 
few short caducous hairs near the base of the upper surface of the 
pale yellow-green unfolding leaves and below in the axils of their 
veins. Leaves semiorbicular, particularly on leading shoots, to oval 
or rarely oblong, short-pointed at the apex, rounded and more or less 
decurrent at the base on the slender grooved slightly glandular petioles, 
mostly slightly divided above the middle into three or four pairs of short 
acute lobes, doubly and sharply glandular-serrate except toward the 
base, thin and firm in texture, dark dull green above, paler below, about 
14 in. long and broad, or on leading shoots occasionally twice as 
large, the slender midribs and remote primary veins deeply impressed 
above; petioles from to r in. in length; stipules linear-lanceolate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, 4 to 4 in. long. Flowers ? in. in diameter 
on short stout pedicels in compact compound 6-1:2-flowered thin- 
branched cymes; bracts and bractlets linear, finely glandular-serrate, 
caducous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, entire or occasionally obscurely denticulate, reflexed after anthe- 
sis; stamens 20; filaments stout, elongated; anthers small, rose- 
colored, fading dark purple; styles 5, surrounded at the base by a 
broad ring of hoary tomentum. Fruit in few-fruited erect clusters on 
short rigid peduncles, subglobose but often rather longer than broad, 
§ in. in diameter, dull red, more or less blotched with green and often 
entirely green on one face; calyx enlarged, persistent, with a broad, 
deep cavity, the lobes linear-lanceolate, abruptly narrowed from 
broad bases, dark red on the upper side, nearly entire, wide-spreading 
and often closely appressed, usually persistent ; flesh yellow, thin, dry 
and hard; nutlets 5, broad and thick, slightly and irregularly grooved 
on the back, about 4 in. long. 
A tree rarely more than 15 or r6 feet in height with a well devel- 
oped trunk 6 or 8 in. in diameter covered with pale gray scaly bark, 
stout wide-spreading branches forming a low flat-topped head, and 
stout slightly zigzag branchlets marked by small lenticels, lustrous 
and bright orange-brown for one or two seasons, finally dull ashy 
gray, and armed with straight slender chestnut-brown lustrous spines 
from 1 to 2 in. in length. 
Flowers during the first week in June. Fruit ripens after the first 
of October, and falls without becoming mellow. 
Low rocky limestone ridges, 7. G. /ack, Caughnawaga, August 29, 
1899, May and September, 19oo, Rockfield, May and September, 
1900. 
