1903] Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus 61 
ter covered with pale gray scaly bark, erect and spreading branches 
and slender straight or slightly zigzag branchlets, yellow green some- 
what tinged with red when they first appear, reddish brown or pur- 
ple and marked by small pale dots during their first season, becom- 
ing grayish brown the following year and ashy gray during their 
third season, and armed with numerous stout nearly straight chest- 
nut brown or purple ultimately gray spines 4-5 cm. long. Flowers 
during the last week of May. Fruit ripens and begins to fall the 
middle of October. 
MASSACHUSETTS: Rocky upland pastures, Great Barrington, 
Brainerd and Sargent, May 1902, C. S. Sargent, September and 
October 1g02. Connecticut: Oxford Æ. B. Harger, May and 
September 19or; East Lyme, C. B. Graves, May and September 
1902. 
Crataegus Jesupi, n. sp. Glabrous. Leaves oblong-ovate, acu- 
minate, broadly cuneate, rounded or rarely truncate at the mostly 
entire base, doubly serrate above with incurved glandular teeth and 
usually divided into 4 or 5 pairs of acute lateral lobes, membrana- 
ceous, pale yellow-green on the upper surface, paler on the lower 
surface, 6-7 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide with slender yellow midribs 
impressed on the upper side and thin primary veins extending 
obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, slightly or on 
vigorous shoots broadly wing-margined toward the apex, glandular, 
with small scattered glands, 2-3.5 cm. long; stipules linear to fal- 
cate, acuminate, glandular-serrate, caducous. Flowers about 1.7 cm. 
in diameter on slender elongated pedicels, in broad, usually 7-9- 
flowered compound corymbs; bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate 
and rounded or acute at apex, to linceolate, glandular-serrate, cadu- 
cous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from 
broad bases, acute, entire, tipped with bright red glands; stamens 
ro; anthers dark red; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a nar- 
row ring of pale tomentum. Fruit obovate to short-oblong, obtusely 
angled particularly below the middle, bright scarlet, pruinose when 
fully grown, destitute of bloom at maturity, marked by large dark 
dots, about r cm. long and wide; calyx small with a short tube, a 
narrow shallow cavity and spreading lobes mostly deciduous before 
the fruit ripens; flesh thin, dry, pale yellow; nutlets 3 or 4, thick, 
full and rounded at the ends, prominently and irregularly ridged on 
the back, with a high rounded ridge; 6-7 cm. long. 
A treelike shrub 3-6 m. in height with stems 6-8 cm. in diame- 
ter and slender slightly zigzag branchlets marked by small lenticels, 
olive-green tinged with red when they first appear, reddish brown 
and lustrous during their first season, becoming gray slightly tinged 
