64 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
scabrate on the upper surface, paler on the lower surface, 7-8 cm. 
long, 5-6 cm. wide, with yellow glabrous or slightly villose midribs 
and remote primary veins arching to the points of the lobes; petioles 
stcut, slightly wing-margined above by the decurrent base of the leaf- 
blades, glandular with large dark glands, at first villose, glabrous and 
more or less deeply tinged with red in the autumn, 1.8—2.5 cm. long ; 
stipules linear, coarsely glandular-serrate, mostly deciduous before 
the flowers open; on vigorous shoots leaves usually broader than long, 
rounded or cordate at the base, more deeply lobed than the leaves of 
fertile branchlets, 6.5—6 cm. wide, usually about 6 cm. long, the lower 
side of the stout midribs often bright red. Flowers r.5—1.7 cm. in 
diameter, in 3—6-flowered simple or compound slightly villose corymbs; 
bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate and acute to linear and acuminate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous; calyx-tube broad, abruptly nar- 
rowed below into the short villose pedicel, the wide lobes entire below 
the middle, foliaceous, laciniately divided and glandular above the 
middle, acuminate at the apex; stamens ro; anthers large, pink or 
pale purple; styles 3 or 4. Fruit in few-fruited erect clusters on 
short slight villose pedicels, subglobose to short-oblong or ovate, full 
and round and slightly hairy at the ends, light yellow-green more or 
less tinged with red, lustrous, marked by few large dark dots, 1.8-3 
cm. long; calyx enlarged, with a short tube, a broad deep cavity, and 
spreading or rarely erect lobes coarsely serrate toward the apex; flesh 
thick, green, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, obtuse at the ends, 
prominently ridged on the broad rounded back, 1.6-1.8 cm. long. 
A broad shrub 1-2 m. tall, with numerous intricately branched 
stems covered with dark gray bark and stout nearly straight branch- 
let marked by many large oblong pale lenticels, orange-brown and 
more or less villose when they first appear, light red-brown and 
usually villose during their first season, becoming dark gray-brown 
the following year, and sparingly armed with slender slightly curved 
chestnut brown ultimately gray spines 3.5-6 cm. long. Flowers 
during the first week of June. Fruit ripens from the first to the 
middle of October. 
New York: Ona slate stone knoll a few miles north of Troy, on 
the Hudson River, in Lansingburg, C. H. Peck, June, September and 
October 19or and 1902. To this species I have referred provision- 
ally fruiting specimens of a shrub collected by me on a hill west of 
the main street of Great Barrington, October 4, 1902. 
Professor Charles H. Peck, the distinguished state botanist of 
New York, who has recently discovered in the neighborhood of 
Albany several other undescribed forms in this genus, permits me to 
associate his name with this handsome species. 
