62 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
with red the following year, and armed with stout straight chestnut- 
brown ultimately gray spines from 2-4 cm. long. Flowers during 
the last week of May. Fruit ripens about the middle of October. 
VERMONT: Moist ground; lower slopes of Twin Mountain, West 
Rutland, W. W. Eggleston, June and October 19oo, May and Octo- 
ber 19or. : 
At the suggestion of its discoverer this species is named for Henry 
G. Jesup, professor at Dartmouth and a critical student of the flora 
of northern New England. 
8 INTRICATAE. 
* Anthers yellow. 
CRATAEGUS MODESTA, Sargent, RHopoRA, iii. 28, (1901). 
Described from plants growing in a small isolated colony on the 
rocky ledges of Twin Mountain, West Rutland, Vermont, Crataegus 
modesta is now known to be widely distributed in western New Eng- 
land and to grow near Albany, New York. Southward it grows more 
vigorously than in the original station, with larger leaves and usually 
larger fruit. 
‘New York: Rocky hillsides, North Albany, Charles H. Peck, May, 
June, September and October 1901; May and September 1902, C. S. 
Sargent, September 1902. MASSACHUSETTS : Hillside, Great Barring- 
ton, Brainerd and Sargent, May 1902; C. S. Sargent, September and 
October 1902. Connecticut: Southington, C. ZZ. Bissell, June and 
September 1901; Z. Andrews, June and September 1902; Stoning- 
ton, C. B. Graves, September, 1901, May 1902. Specimens in fruit 
only collected at East Windsor by C. ZZ. Bissell (No. 22), at Oxford 
by Æ. B. Harger (No. 55), at Norwalk, by C. ZZ. Bissell (No. 27), at 
Trumbull by Æ. H. Eames (Nos. 199 & 229), are provisionally 
referred to this species. 
* * Anthers rose color or purple. 
Crataegus Stonei, n. sp. Leaves oblong, narrowed to the ends, 
acuminate, cuneate, entire and often glandular at the base, sharply 
and doubly serrate above, with straight teeth tipped with dark red 
glands, irregularly divided into numerous short acute lateral lobes; 
when they unfold pale yellow green more or less tinged with red, 
covered above with short pale hairs and villose below along the 
midribs and veins; more than half-grown when the flowers open and 
