II2 Rhodora [APRIL 
compound corymbs; bracts and bractlets small, linear, acuminate, 
glandular-serrate, caducous; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, more or 
less deeply tinged with red, the lobes narrow, elongated, acuminate, 
coarsely glandular-serrate, red at the apex, reflexed after anthesis ; 
stamens 5; anthers rose-purple; styles 3 or 4. Fruit in erect few- 
fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong or rarely broadly obovate, 
bright, cherry red, lustrous, often blotched with green or yellow, 
marked by few large pale dots, 1-1.3 cm. long, 9-12 mm. wide; 
calyx small and sessile, with a comparatively broad deep cavity and 
elongated lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, coarsely glan- 
dularserrate, red on the upper side near the base, spreading or 
incurved, often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thick, pale yel- 
low, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, thin, acute at the ends, promi- 
nently ridged on the back, with a high rounded ridge, about 7 mm. 
long. 
A broad round-topped shrub 3-4 mm. high with few or many 
much branched stems covered with pale gray bark, often much 
roughened near the ground, and slender slightly zigzag glabrous 
branchlets marked by many small lenticels, olive green slightly tinged 
with red when they first appear, bright reddish brown during their 
first season, darker the following year, and usually only slightly armed 
with stout straight bright red-brown spines from 2.5—5 cm. in length. 
Flowers about May 2oth. Fruit ripens and begins to fall during 
the first week of September. 
CONNECTICUT: Open rocky pastures near the Niantic River, East 
Lyme, C. B. Graves, May 26 and September 6, 1902. MassacHu- 
SETTS: hill west of the main street of Great Barrington, and roadside 
between Great Barrington and Alvord, Æ. Brainerd and C. S. Sar- 
gent, May 31, 1902; Great Barrington, C. .S. Sargent, September 9, 
1902. 
CRATAEGUS HOLMESIANA, Ashe, Sargent Siva JN. Am. xii. 119, t, 
676. A form of this species with glabrous or pubescent corymbs. 
slightly larger flowers and fruit which ripens from ten to twenty days 
later than the form figured in Zhe Silva of North America, is common 
near Montreal where Mr. Jack has found it in several stations; it is 
also common in the neighborhood of Toronto and at Rochester, 
New York. 
Crataegus fretalis, n. sp. Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, 
full and rounded at the broad base, sharply and except towards the 
base mostly doubly serrate, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and 
divided into three or four pairs of short acute lateral lobes; tinged 
with red and covered when they unfold with short pale hairs, and 
more than half grown when the flowers open and then membranaceous, 
