150 Rhodora (May 
glands, reflexed after anthesis; stamens usually ro, rarely 8 or 
g; anthers deep rose-purple; styles 3-5. Fruit in few-fruited erect 
clusters, short-oblong to obovate, in the early autumn dull red and 
slightly pruinose, when fully ripe, dark red, lustrous, destitute of 
bloom, r.2—1.4 cm. long, about 1.2 cm. wide; calyx sessile, with a 
broad shallow cavity and spreading or reflexed lobes often deciduous 
from the ripe fruit ; flesh thin, juicy, acidulous reddish orange color ; 
nutlets usually 3 or 4, thick, acute at the ends, rounded and promi- 
nently ridged on the broad back, with a high rounded ridge, about 
8 mm. long. 
A shrub 3 or 4 m. in height with stems not more than 8 cm. in 
diameter, covered with light gray bark scaly near their base, spread- 
ing branches and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by 
numerous oblong pale lenticels, dull reddish brown and pruinose 
when they first appear, soon becoming bright red-brown and lustrous, 
and dark gray-brown or ashy gray in their second season, and armed 
with stout straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown and shin- 
ing ultimately gray spines 4-5 cm. in length. Flowers about the 
20th of May. Fruit ripens and begins to fall from the 1st to the 
middle of October. 
Connecticut: Open rocky pastures near the Niantic River, East 
Lyme, C. B. Graves, May and September 1902. 
This species appears to be well distinguished by the unusual 
development of the lower branches of the inflorescence, by the 
character of the leaves which are thicker and more rigid than is 
usual in species of this group, and by the short-oblong or short- 
obovate fruit with red-tinted flesh. 
Crataegus media, n. sp. Glandular with the exception of the 
caducous hairs of the young leaves. Leaves ovate to rhombic, 
acute, broadly cuneate or rounded at the entire base, coarsely often 
doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and slightly 
divided into 3 or 4 pairs of short acuminate lateral lobes, bright red 
and covered above with short lustrous white caducous hairs when 
they unfold, about half-grown, membranaceous, light yellow green 
and almost glabrous when the flowers open ; at maturity subcoriace- 
ous, dark dull blue green on the upper surface, pale blue-green on 
the lower surface, 4-6 cm. long, about 4 cm. wide, with thin light 
yellow midribs and usually 4 pairs of thin primary veins extending 
to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined at the 
apex, slightly grooved, glandular above the middle early in the 
season, often tinged with red in the autumn, 1.5 to 3 cm. long ; 
stipules linear to oblong, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, turn- 
ing red before falling, caducous; on vigorous shoots leaves usually 
