1903] Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus 55 
and slender zigzag branchlets green tinged with red when they first 
appear, dull purple and marked by oblong pale lenticels during their 
first season, becoming reddish brown the following year, and armed 
with numerous slender nearly straight lustrous chestnut-brown spines 
4-5 cm. long. Flowers during last week of May. Fruit ripens 
from the first to the middle of October and falls slowly. Late 
in the autumn the leaves turn a dull purple color. 
CONNECTICUT: Open rocky pastures near the shores of Niantic 
River, East Lyme and from one to two miles north of the village of 
Niantic, C. B. Graves, May and October 1902. 
Crataegus Pequotorum,n.sp. Glabrous. Leaves ovate, acute 
or acuminate, rounded or broadly cuneate at the entire base, sharply 
and doubly glandular-serrate above, rarely divided into short acute 
lateral lobes ; thin, often concave, dull light green above, paler below 
and nearly fully grown when the flowers open, at maturity membran- 
aceous, dark blue-green on the upper surface, paler on the lower 
surface, 5—6 cm. long, 4—5 cm. wide, or on vigorous shoots 6.5—7 cm. 
long and broad, with slender midribs impressed on the upper side 
and 4 or 5 pairs of thin primary veins; petioles slender, slightly or 
on leading shoots broadly wing margined at the apex, 2-3 cm. long. 
Flowers 1.5 cm. in diameter, on slender elongated pedicels in simple 
or rarely compound 3-6, very rarely 9-flowered thin-branched 
corymbs; bracts and bractlets minute, oblong-obovate, glandular- 
serrate, caducous ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually 
narrowed from broad bases, short, acuminate, tipped with dark 
glands, entire or rarely obscurely serrate, reflexed after anthesis ; 
petals occasionally deep rose color; stamens 18-20; anthers large, 
lilac color; styles 4 or 5, rarely 3. Fruit more or less pendant, 
short-obovate, full and rounded at the apex, abruptly narrowed 
below into the enlarged apex of the pedicel, obtusely 4 or s-angled, 
9-11 mm. long, 11-13 mm. wide, dark crimson, pruinose, marked by 
numerous large dark lenticels ; calyx prominent, with a distinct tube, 
a broad shallow cavity and spreading and reflexed lobes; flesh thick, 
hard but somewhat juicy, insipid, crimson; nutlets 3-5, acute at the 
ends, thin, rounded and slightly grooved on the back, 7 mm. long. 
An arborescent shrub 2-3 m. in height with a stem covered with 
rough gray bark, and usually 7-8 cm. in diameter, ascending and 
wide-spreading branches, and slender branchlets marked by small 
oblong pale lenticels, yellow-green tinged with red when they first 
appear, dull red-brown or purplish during their first season, becoming 
slightly darker the following year, and usually ashy gray during the 
following season, and armed with stout straight dark purple lustrous 
spines. usually about 2.5 cm. long, and conspicuous globose winter- 
