1903] Sargent,— Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 145 
early ripening of the fruit noticed. When it was described flowers 
of the Middlebury plant had not been collected but flowering speci- 
mens of a species with twenty stamens which had been collected by 
Mr. A. W. Edson at Burlington, Vermont, were thought to belong to 
this species and on these specimens so much of the description as 
relates to the flowers was based. Flowers collected the following 
year by Mr. Brainerd from the plant which had furnished the fruiting 
specimens on which Crataegus matura was in part established show 
the error of the previous determination and the importance of drawing 
the descriptions of Crataegus only from flowering and fruiting speci- 
mens taken from the same individual. The description of the flower- 
ing specimens from Middlebury is as follows : 
Leaves more than half grown when the flowers open, membrana- 
ceous dark yellow-green and roughened above by short appressed white 
hairs, pale and glabrous below; stipules oblong-obovate and acumin- 
ate to lanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, often 1.3-5 cm. in 
length, caducous. Flowers about r.6 cm. in diameter on slender 
pedicels, in broad many-flowered thin-branched glabrous compound 
corymbs; bracts and bractlets oblong-obovate to linear, acuminate, 
very coarsely glandular-serrate, large, conspicuous, turning red before 
falling, caducous; calyx-tube broadly obconic, the lobes gradually 
narrowed, slender, elongated, acuminate, bright red and glandular 
at the apex, entire or furnished with occasional minute teeth, reflexed 
after anthesis; stamens 5-10, usually 5—7 ; anthers red; styles 3-5, 
usually 3 surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale tomentum. 
Crataegus florea, n. Sp; Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, 
rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, sharply and often doubly 
glandular-serrate, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of short acute 
lobes; nearly fully grown and slightly roughened above by short 
white hairs when the flowers open; at maturity thin but firm in tex- 
ture, dark yellow-green and scabrate on the upper surface, paler and 
glabrous on the lower surface, 5.5-6 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide, with 
slender yellow midribs and 5 or 6 pairs of thin primary veins arch- 
ing to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, narrowly wing-mar- 
gined at the apex, slightly grooved, sparingly glandular, with mostly 
deciduous glands, 2.5-3 cm. long; on vigorous shoots sometimes as 
broad as long, more deeply lobed, abruptly long-pointed. Flowers 
about 1.5 cm. in diameter on long slender pedicels, in numerous 
crowded many-flowered compound corymbs; bracts and bractlets 
linear, glandular, small, caducous ; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, the 
lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, slender, acuminate, entire 
or occasionally undulate or obscurely serrate, reflexed after anthesis; 
stamens 6-10; anthers red; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by 
a thin ring of pale tomentum. Fruit oblong, full and rounded at the 
