1903] Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus 53 
four or five pairs of thin primary veins almost entirely within the 
parenchyma; leaves of vigorous shoots oval, acute or acuminate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, with prominent primary veins, stout peti- 
oles often red in the autumn, their stipules falcate, acuminate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, 1-1.2 cm. long; petioles wing-margined 
nearly to the base, 8-12 mm. long. Flowers r.5—1.7 cm. in diame- 
ter on slender pedicels, in broad 17—22-flowered thin-branched com- 
pound corymbs; bracts and bractlets minute, linear, red, caducous; 
calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes elongated, narrow, acuminate, 
often red at the tips, entire or sparingly glandular, with minute red 
glands, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 8-10, usually 10; anthers 
deep rose-purple; styles 1 or very rarely 2. Fruit erect on thin 
rigid pedicels, in broad many-fruited clusters, oblong, full and 
rounded at the ends, bright crimson marked by numerous dark red 
dots, ro-11 mm. long, 9-10 mm. wide; calyx broad with a shallow 
cavity and spreading closely appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, dry 
and mealy; nutlet 1, narrowed from the middle to the obtuse ends, 
prominently ridged on the dorsal face, with a high rounded ridge, 
8-ro mm. long, or rarely 2 and then smaller and compressed on the 
inner face. 
A broad round-topped shrub 2-3 m. in height with numerous stout 
stems covered with smooth pale gray bark, and slender slightly zig- 
zag branchlets marked by small oblong pale lenticels, dark olive 
green tinged with red when they first appear, dull reddish brown or 
orange-brown during their first season, becoming pale gray-brown 
the following year and armed with many stout straight or slightly 
curved spines generally spreading at right angles, chestnut-brown 
and lustrous while young, finally becoming ashy gray, usually 4-5 
cm.long. Flowers during the first week of June. Fruit ripens and 
falls during the first week of October. 
CONNECTICUT: Waterford, on the ridge east of Fog Plain Brook, 
and pastures near Gilead, June and October 1902; East Haven, 
June 17, 1902; Shelden’s Cove, Lyme, September 1902; Stoning- 
ton, September 1902, C. B. Graves. i 
This shrubby species is well distinguished from Crataegus Crus- 
galli, Linnaeus, the only other species of this group which has been 
found in New England, by its usually solitary style and nutlet, its 
smaller more oblong brighter colored fruit which falls as soon as 
ripe early in October, while the fruit of Crataegus Crus-ga//i remains 
on the branches usually until spring, and by its shrubby habit. 
