1903] Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus 59 
A slender arborescent shrub 2—3 m. in height with stems covered 
with pale gray scaly bark and 7-8 cm. in diameter, small erect and 
spreading branches, and stout nearly straight branchlets marked by 
small oblong orange-colored lenticels, olive green tinged with red 
when they first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and lustrous 
during their first season and dark reddish brown the following year, 
and armed with stout nearly straight dark purple ultimately gray 
spines 4-5 cm. long. Flowers at the end of May and early in June. 
Fruit ripens from the rst to the roth of October and usually falls 
during that month. 
MassacHUsETTS: Hill west of the main street of Great Barrington, 
and roadside between Great Barrington and Alford, Brainerd and 
Sargent, May 31, 1902; Great Barrington, C. S. Sargent, September 
9 and October 4, 1902; CONNECTICUT: Gravelly soil, Poquonnock 
Plain, Groton, C. B. Graves, June, July and October 19o1. 
Crataegus littoralis, n. sp. Glabrous. Leaves Ovate, acute, 
broadly cuneate or rounded or occasionally narrowed at the entire 
base, finely often doubly serrate above, with straight teeth terminat- 
ing in bright red glands, and divided into 3 or 4 pairs of broad 
rounded or short pointed acute lobes; tinged with red when they 
unfold, and when the flowers open half-grown and light yellow-green ; 
at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark green and lustrous on the 
upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 4-6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. 
wide, with prominent midribs impressed above and 4 or s pairs of 
thin primary veins arching to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, 
slightly wing-margined toward the apex, conspicuously glandular, 
often red in the autumn like the under side of the midribs, 2—2.5 cm. 
long; stipules linear to falcate, acuminate, glandular-serrate, reddish, 
caducous. Flowers 2 to 2.2 cm. in diameter on slender pedicels in 
compact 5 to 6-flowered simple corymbs ; bracts and bractlets linear, 
acuminate, glandular-serrate, caducous ; calyx narrowly obconic, the 
lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, slender, acuminate, 
entire or sparingly glandular; petals often streaked with purple; 
stamens 20; anthers large, pale yellow; styles 2—4, usually 3. Fruit 
short-obovate, erect on the much thickened rigid pedicels, gradually 
narrowed toward the base, dark crimson, somewhat pruinose, 1—r.2 
cm. long, 1—1.1 cm. wide; calyx prominent with a short distinct tube, 
a broad shallow cavity and spreading lobes usually deciduous from 
the ripe fruit; flesh thin, hard, greenish or yellowish white, slightly 
acid; nutlets 2—4, full and rounded at the ends, prominently ridged 
on the back, with a high round more or less grooved ridge, 6—7 mm. 
long. 
A shrub with a broad open head r-3 m. in height, with stems 
