56 Rhodora [Fepruary 
buds 3-4 mm. in diameter, with lustrous bright chestnut-brown scales 
scarious on the margins. Flowers during the first week of June. 
Fruit ripens and begins to fall about October 2oth. 
Connecticut: Mumford’s Point, Groton, in the region once 
inhabited by the Pequot Indians, C. B. Graves, June and October 
1902. 
Well distinguished from the other described species of this group 
by the form of its thin leaves with their long petioles and by the 
crimson flesh of the pear-shaped fruit. 
Crataegus pilosa, n. sp. Leaves ovate to rhombic, acute or 
acuminate, full and rounded, or cuneate or on leading shoots trun- 
cate or subcordate at the entire often glandular base, finely and 
usually doubly serrate above, with gland-tipped teeth and often, par- 
ticularly on vigorous shoots, divided into short acute lobes; when 
they unfold tinged with red and coated above with long pale hairs; 
nearly fully grown when the flowers open and then thin, membran- 
aceous, pale yellow-green and still slightly pilose; at maturity sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, dark blue-green on the upper surface, paler on 
the lower surface, 4-6 cm. long and broad, with slender midribs 
slightly impressed above and 3 or rarely 4 pairs of thin remote 
primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; peti- 
oles slender, wing-margined above, deeply grooved, glandular, with 
few large dark red glands, 1.2-1.4 cm. long; stipules linear to 
falcate, coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous. Flowers on slender 
elongated pedicels, in 3~—5-flowered glabrous thin-branched compound 
corymbs ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes short, acute, entire 
or occasionally furnished with a few small glandular teeth, reflexed 
after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers small, bright rose color; styles 
5 or rarely 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. 
Fruit erect, subglobose to broadly ovate, often somewhat angled 
below the middle, dull dark crimson, about 3 cm. long; calyx sessile, 
with a broad shallow cavity and much enlarged lobes gradually 
narrowed from broad bases, spreading or reflexed ; flesh thin, dry 
and mealy, pale green; nutlets 4 or s. thin, acute at the ends, con- 
spicuously and irregularly ridged on the back” with a high rounded 
ridge, about r.2 cm. long. 
An intricately branched shrub 3-4 m. high, with numerous stout 
stems covered with rough ashy gray bark, and slender slightly zigzag 
branchlets marked by oblong scattered pale lenticels, yellow-green 
when they first appear, dull purple during their first season, chestnut- 
brown and lustrous when the flowers open the following spring, and 
finaly pale gray tinged with red, and armed with numerous stout 
nearly straight shining chestnut-brown ultimately ashy gray spines 
