1903] Sargent,—Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 147 
3-5 cm. in length. Flowers during the last week in May. Fruit 
ripens about the middle of September. 
CONNECTICUT : northern part of the valley of Eight Mile Brook, 
Southbury and Middlebury, E. B. Zarger, May and September, 
1901. Very abundant. “Most of the trees were so white with 
blossoms that they were noticeable from a distance of from one 
quarter to one half of a mile." (E. B. Harger zz Z//f.) 
Crataegus blandita, n. sp. Crataegus pastorum, Sargent, RHo- 
DORA, iii. 76, in part (1901). 
Leaves broadly ovate, acute, truncate, rounded or rarely cuneate 
or on leading shoots mostly subcordate at the base, sharply some- 
times doubly serrate, with glandular teeth, slightly divided into 30r4 
pairs of broad short-pointed lateral lobes; tinged with red and cov- 
ered with short pale hairs when they unfold, more than half-grown 
when the flowers open and then dark green and roughened on the 
upper surface with short lustrous white hairs and pale and glabrous 
on the lower surface; at maturity thin but firm in texture, smooth, 
dark yellow-green above, light yellow-green below, about 5 cm. long 
and 4 cm. wide, or on vigorous shoots often 6 cm. long and wide, 
with slender yellow midribs slightly impressed above and 3-5, usually 
4, pairs of thin primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the 
lobes; petioles slender, nearly terete, glandular, with small dark red 
deciduous glands, frequently rose-color in the autumn, 2-3.5 cm. long ; 
stipules linear, acuminate, often lobed at the base on vigorous shoots, 
glandular with bright red glands, caducous. Flowers r.2—1.3 cm. in 
diameter on long slender pedicels, in thin-branched glabrous mostly 
ro-flowered compound corymbs with 3- or 4-flowered peduncles from 
the axils of the upper and occasionally also of the second leaf ; bracts 
and bractlets linear, acuminate, glandular, small, caducous; calyx- 
tube narrowly obconic, the lobes slender, elongated, acuminate, finely 
and irregularly glandular-serrate, villose on the inner surface, reflexed 
after anthesis; stamens 5-10, usually ro; anthers purple; styles 3 
or 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 
Fruit in drooping many-fruited clusters, oblong, full and rounded at 
the ends, 1.2—1.5 cm. long, 8 or 9 mm. wide, scarlet, lustrous, marked 
by many small pale lenticels ; calyx small, sessile, with a narrow deep 
cavity, and lobes villose above, spreading and reflexed, often decidu- 
ous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow; nutlets 3 or 4, acute at 
the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad rounded ridge, about 8 
mm. long. 
A shrub 2-4 m. in height with numerous erect stems spreading 
into small thickets, and stout zigzag branchlets marked by large pale 
lenticels, dark dull orange-green tinged with red when they first 
appear dull reddish or orange-brown during their first season, light 
