1903] Sargent,— Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 143 
Flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter on elongated slender pedicels, in 
lax thin-branched glabrous 7—1:2-flowered compound corymbs ; calyx- 
tube narrowly obconic, the lobes gradually narrowed from broad 
bases, acuminate, entire or occasionally slightly serrate, tipped with 
bright red glands, reflexed after anthesis; stamens usually c, occa- 
sionally 7; anthers large, dark rose color; styles 3 or 4. Fruit 
drooping on slender pedicels, oblong, full and rounded at the ends, 
scarlet, lustrous, marked by occasional pale dots, r—:.2 cm. long, 
8-9 mm. wide; calyx small, sessile, with a narrow shallow cavity 
and erect incurved lobes mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh 
thin, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, broad, rounded at the ends, 
prominently ridged on the back, with a wide rounded ridge, 6 mm. 
long. 
A shrub 3-4 m. in height with numerous stout stems covered with 
ashy gray bark, erect branches forming an open irregular head, and 
slender nearly straight branchlets marked by small pale lenticels, 
dull green and tinged with red when they first appear, bright red- 
brown and lustrous during their first season, becoming pale gray- 
brown the following year, and armed with very slender straight 
bright red-brown shining ultimately ashy gray spines 3.5—4 cm. in 
length. Flowers from the sth to the roth of June. Fruit ripens 
from the middle to the end of September. 
MAINE: Low moist meadows near Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, 
C. S. Sargent, September 4, 1899; Miss Beatrix Jones, September 20, 
1899, June and September r9or. 
The name of Edward L. Rand, one of the authors of the Zora of 
Mt. Desert Island and the secretary of the New England Botanical 
Club, may be appropriately connected with this handsome and dis- 
tinct plant. 
Crataegus crudelis, n. sp. Leaves ovate, acute, broadly cuneate 
or rarely rounded at the usually entire base, finely and often doubly 
serrate, with glandular straight or incurved teeth, and deeply divided 
into numerous narrow acute spreading or reflexed lobes; when they 
unfold villose above and along the midribs and viens below, about 
half-grown when the flowers open and then membranaceous, light 
yellow-green and covered above with short, appressed, lustrous 
white hairs and nearly glabrous below; at maturity thin, dark yellow- 
green and scabrate on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 
6-7 cm. long, 5—6 cm. wide, with thin midribs slightly impressed 
above and 5 or 6 pairs of slender primary veins arching obliquely to 
the points of the lobes ; petioles nearly terete, slightly winged at the 
apex, glandular with numerous small dark persistent glands, 2—3 cm. 
long; stipules linear, glandular, caducous. Flowers 2 cm. in diame- 
