148 Rhodora  : [Mav 
reddish brown the following year, later becoming lustrous and gray 
tinged with red, and armed with many very stout curved light red- 
brown spines 2.5—4.5 cm. in length. Flowers at the end of May. 
Fruit ripens late in September or early in October. 
Province or Querrec: Rocky limestone ridges, Caughnawaga 
Indian Reservation [Adirondack Junction]; Montreal Island, [Mont- 
real West]; Ile Perrot, Longueil, /. G. Jack, August and September 
1899, May 1900, May and September 1900, 1902. 
Specimens of this species were referred by me two years ago to 
Crataegus pastorum, Sargent, a species which is probably confined 
to central and southern Massachusetts. From this species Cratae- 
gus blandita differs in its more deeply lobed yellow not blue-green 
leaves, in its larger flowers, in fewer-flowered corymbs, and its larger 
darker-colored fruit. 
Crataegus genialis, n. sp. Crataegus pastorum, Sargent, 
RHODORA, iii. 24 (1901) in so much as relates to Berkshire County, 
Massachusetts, and the Champlain Valley of Vermont. 
Leaves oval, acute or acuminate, rounded or cuneate or often 
oblique at the entire base, finely and usually doubly serrate above, 
with straight or incurved glandular teeth, and mostly slightly divided 
above the middle into 1—4 pairs of short acute lobes; slightly tinged 
with red or light bronze color and roughened above by short pale 
hair when they unfold, nearly fully grown, membranaceous, dark 
green and scabrate above when the flowers open; at maturity thin 
but firm in texture, smooth and very dark green on the upper surface, 
pale blue-green on the lower surface, mostly pendant, 5-7 cm. long, 
5.5-6 cm. wide, with slender yellow midribs and primary veins run- 
ning obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles very slender, nearly 
terete, 2—3 cm. long; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate, 
caducous; on vigorous shoots leaves often 6—7 cm. long and broad 
and rounded or acuminate at the apex, coarsely serrate, their lateral 
lobes sometimes broad and rounded, coriaceous, very dark green, 
with stout rose-color midribs and thick dark red petioles generally 
wing-margined to below the middle, not more than 1 cm. in length 
and about as long as the broad foliaceous lunate stipules. Flowers 
1.3—1.5 cm. in diameter on slender elongated pedicels, in broad many- 
flowered compound glabrous corymbs ; bracts and bractlets linear, 
glandular, red before falling, caducous; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, 
the lobes slender, acuminate, entire or occasionally sparingly dentate, 
reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-10; anthers small, rose color or 
purple; styles 3. Fruit on long slender pedicels in drooping many- 
fruited clusters, oblong, full and rounded at the ends, yellow-green 
when fully grown, becoming at maturity dark crimson, and lustrous, 
marked by numerous small pale dots, 1.1—1.2 cm. long, 8-9 mm. wide; 
