1903} Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus 63 
then membranaceous, at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark 
yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale on the lower 
surface, 7-8 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, with orange-colored villose mid- 
ribs and veins, the thin veins extending obliquely to the points of 
the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined toward the apex, slightly 
grooved, glandular, with stipitate dark glands, villose, 2-3 cm. long ; 
stipules linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate, caducous. Flowers 2 cm. 
in diameter on stout pedicels, in villose 4—6-flowered simple compact 
corymbs ; bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate, conspicuously glandu- 
lar-serrate, turning red before falling, large and conspicuous; calyx- 
tube broadly obconic, coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes 
gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, coarsely glandular- 
serrate above the middle, villose, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; 
anthers large, rose color; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by a 
broad ring of pale hairs. Fruit erect on elongated rigid slightly vil- 
lose pedicels thickened toward the apex, obovate, light yellow or 
greenish yellow, covered toward the gradually narrowed or rounded 
base with long séattered pale hairs, r.4 to 1.6 cm. long, 1.2—1.4 cm. 
wide; calyx large and prominent, with a broad shallow cavity and 
spreading much enlarged coarsely serrate lobes, dark red on the upper 
side at the base; flesh thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, thick, 
obtuse at the rounded ends, prominently ridge, with a high rounded 
irdge, 9-10 mm. long. 
A shrub 1-2 m. in height with numerous intricately branched stems 
and stout slightly zigzag branchlets marked by occasional small 
oblong pale lenticels, green tinged with red and glabrous or villose 
when they first appear, and dark reddish purple and sometimes 
puberulous during their first season, becoming dull reddish brown 
the following year and armed with many stout nearly straight red- 
brown ultimately gray spines 4-6 cm. long and usually pointed 
toward the base of the branch. Flowers during the first week of 
June. Fruit ripen about the middle of September. 
MASSACHUSETTS: Top of Smith Hill; Pelham, G. E. Stone, June 
and September and 19o2. 
I am glad to associate with this handsome and distinct species the 
name of its discoverer, Professor George E. Stone of the Massachu- 
setts Agricultural College. 
Crataegus Peckii, n. sp. — Leaves oblong-ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, rounded to broadly concave-cuneate at the mostly entire gland- 
ular base, doubly serrate above, with straight or incurved gland- 
tipped teeth, slightly divided into 3 or 4 pairs of broad rounded or 
acute lobes; coated as they unfold with long matted pale hairs, and 
nearly fully grown and villose along the midribs and veins below when 
the flowers open, at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark green and 
