140 Rhodora [May 
extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; on vigorous shoots 
mostly deltoid and truncate or cordate at the base, deeply lobed, 4-6 
cm. long ; petioles slender, nearly terete, glandular, with minute dark 
glands 1—1.2 cm. long. Flowers 9 or ro mm. in diameter on short 
slender pedicels, in compact s-—ro-flowered glabrous corymbs ; 
bracts and bractlets linear, entire, bright red, caducous ; calyx-tube 
narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes gradually narrowed from the 
base, elongated, acuminate, entire, tipped with dark red glands, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-10; anthers small, dark rose 
color; styles 3 or 4, usually 3, surrounded at the base by a broad 
ring of pale tomentum. Fruit in few-fruited drooping clusters, short- 
oblong to subglobose or slightly obovate, scarlet, lustrous, 8 or 9 mm. 
long and nearly as broad ; calyx sessile, with a broad shallow cavity 
and closely appressed lobes bright red on the upper side below the 
middle; flesh very thin, yellow, dry and mealy ; nutlets 3 or rarely 4, 
unusually large for the size of the fruit, obtuse at the ends, promi- 
nently ridged on the broad back, with a high wide ridge, about 
7 mm. long. t 
A slender shrub generally not more than 1 m. in height with small 
erect stems and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by occa- 
sional large dark lenticels, green tinged with red when they first 
appear, becoming bright red-brown and lustrous during their first 
season and gray-brown the following year, and armed with numerous 
stout or slender slightly curved bright red-brown shining ultimately 
ashy gray spines 3-5 cm. long. Flowers during the last week of May. 
Fruit ripens late in August or early in September and soon falls. 
MASSACHUSETTS: Meadows near the Stockbridge Bowl, Lenox, 
C. S. Sargent, August 1885, Brainerd and Sargent, May 30, 1902. 
VERMONT: Meadows, Charlotte, C. S. Sargent, September 7, 1900, 
F. H. Horsford, May 1902. 
Well distinguished by the deltoid deeply lobed usually heart-shaped 
leaves on vigorous shoots, the small flowers and small nearly globose 
early-ripening fruit. 
Crataegus glaucophylla, n. sp. Leaves broadly ovate, acute 
or short-pointed at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, 
sharply and often doubly serrate above, with straight or incurved 
glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of narrow acute or 
long-pointed lateral lobes; more or less tinged with red and rough- 
ened above by short pale caducous hairs when they unfold, more 
than half grown when the flowers open and then smooth light yel- 
low-green and covered with a glaucous bloom above, pale and glau- 
cous below, at maturity thin but firm in texture, light yellow-green on 
the upper surface, pale bluish green on the lower surface, about 6 
cm. long and 4.5 cm. wide, or on vigorous shoots 7-8 cm. long and 6 
