1903] Sargent, — Recently recognized Species of Crataegus III 
with a broad shallow cavity, and narrow elongated appressed lobes ; 
flesh thick, juicy, pale yellow; nutlets 4 or 5, acute at the ends, 
slightly and irregularly ridged on the narrow back, 6-7 mm. long. 
A tree 7 or 8 m. in height, with a tall trunk sometimes 3 dm. in 
diameter, stout wide-spreading or ascending branches forming an open 
shapely head, and slender mostly unarmed branchlets marked by 
many small oblong pale lenticels, olive green when they first appear, 
dull reddish brown during their first season, and pale red-brown and 
lustrous the following year. Flowers during the last week of May. 
Fruit ripens the first of September and soon falls. 
MassacHusETTS: Borders of woods, usually in low moist soil. 
Lenox, Brainerd and Sargent, May 30, 1902; C. S. Sargent, Sep- 
tember 8, 1902. 
This species which is closely related to Crataegus lobulata, Sargent, 
differs from it in its compact few flowered corymbs, in the peculiar 
hairs which cover the pedicels of the flowers, in its remarkably thin 
leaves which are shorter in proportion to their length, much less 
deeply lobed and very rough on the upper surface, and in its early 
ripening fruit which falls at least a month earlier than that of Cra/ae- 
gus lobulata. The tree which should be considered the type of this 
species is growing on the estate at Lenox which was owned for many 
years by the late William R. Robeson of Boston, and was probably 
moved at least forty or fifty years ago from the woods in the neigh- 
borhood to its present position close to the front door of the house. 
The name of a family of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts which has 
produced at least four generations of intelligent and cultivated lovers 
of trees can thus properly be associated with this handsome plant. 
Crataegus polita,n.sp. Leaves ovate to oval, acute or acuminate, 
full and rounded, or on vigorous shoots sometimes truncate or sub- 
cordate at the base, slightly and often doubly serrate, with straight 
glandular teeth, and divided into numerous short acuminate lateral 
lobes; tinged with red and covered on the upper surface with short 
lustrous white hairs when they unfold, nearly fully grown when the 
flowers open and then membranaceous, light yellow-green and scabrate 
above and pale and glabrous below; at maturity thick and firm in 
texture, smooth and dull dark yellow-green on the upper surface, light 
yellow-green on the lower surface, 7-9 cm. long, 6—7.5 cm. wide, with 
slender yellow midribs deeply impressed above and four or five pairs 
of thin primary veins running to the points of the lobes; petioles 
slender, nearly terete, sparingly glandular toward the apex, often red 
in autumn, 2.5-3 cm.long. Flowers about r cm. in diameter on 
elongated slender pedicels, in broad open thin-branched glabrous 
