142 Rhodora [Mav: 
the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 5.5-8.5 cm. long, 4.5-6 
cm. wide, with slender yellow midribs and very thin primary veins 
extending to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, glandular with 
minute scattered dark mostly early deciduous glands, 2-3 cm. in 
length; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate, caducous. 
Flowers 1.4-1.5 cm. in diameter on slender pedicels, in broad com- 
pact many-flowered compound thin-branched glabrous corymbs ; 
bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate, acute, finely glandular-serrate, 
caducous ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, elongated, 
entire or sparingly and minutely glandular-serrate, reflexed after 
anthesis; stamens 10; anthers pink; styles 3 or 4. Fruit in broad 
drooping many-fruited clusters, oblong-obovate until late in the sea- 
son, becoming oblong and full and rounded when fully ripe, dark 
crimson, lustrous, r.3—1.4 cm. long, about 1.2 cm. wide ; calyx small, 
sessile, with a deep shallow cavity and spreading lobes; flesh thick, 
yellow, soft and succulent; nutlets 3 or 4, thin, full and rounded at 
the ends, ridged on the narrow back, with a low round ridge, 9 mm. 
long. 
A shrub 2-3 m. in height with numerous slender stems spreading 
into small thickets or rarely arborescent, ascending branches, and 
thin nearly straight branchlets dark olive green when they first 
appear, dark dull red-brown and marked by oblong pale lenticels 
during their first season, becoming light reddish brown the following 
year, and armed with few stout curved bright chestnut-brown spines 
1.5-3 cm. in length. Flowers at the end of May. Fruit ripens the 
middle of October. 
Vermont: Low mountain slopes and hillsides at the western base 
of the Green Mountains up to elevations of 500 feet above the sea- 
level only in loamy or gravelly soil, Bristol, C. G. Pring/e, Septem- 
ber 1879; New Haven, May, July, September and October, 1900, 
Middlebury, October 13, 1900, Ezra Brainerd; West Rutland, W. 
W. Eggleston, May 1900. 
Crataegus Randiana, n. sp. Leaves ovate to broadly oval, 
acute or acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, finely and above 
the middle mostly doubly serrate, with straight or incurved gland- 
tipped teeth, and slightly divided into short acute or acuminate 
spreading narrow lobes; nearly fully grown when the flowers open 
and then light yellow-green and covered above with short appressed 
white hairs and glabrous below ; at maturity membranaceous, gla- 
brous, yellow-green, 5—6 cm. long, 4.5-5 cm. wide, or on leading 
shoots 7.5 cm. long and broad, with very slender yellow midribs 
slightly impressed on the upper side and thin primary veins extend- 
ing obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, nearly 
terete, sparingly glandular, with minute dark glands, 2—4 cm. long. 
