160 Rhodora [JUNE 
pairs of slender primary veins extending obliquely to the points of 
the lobes, or occasionally 3-nerved; petioles slender, more or less 
wing-margined at the apex by the decurrent base of the leaf-blades, 
slightly hairy and often glandular early in the season, 1—1.4 cm. in 
length; on leading shoots leaves often broadly ovate, rounded, 
slightly cordate or broadly cuneate at the base, coarsely serrate and 
divided into numerous short acute lateral lobes, 5—6 cm. long and 
nearly as wide, with thick rose-colored midribs and stout winged pet- 
ioles. Flowers r.5—1.6 cm. in diameter on slender slightly hairy or 
glabrous pedicels, in compact 5-16, mostly 10-12, flowered com- 
pound corymbs; bracts and bractlets linear and acuminate to lanceo- 
late, glandular, pink; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, light green, the 
lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, linear, acuminate, tipped 
with bright red glands, finely glandular-serrate usually only above 
the middle, reflexed after anthesis, deciduous from the ripe fruit ; sta- 
mens 4-10, usually 7 or 8; anthers small, pale yellow; styles 2 or 3, 
very rarely 4, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomen- 
tum. Fruit in erect few-fruited compact clusters, globose or 
depressed globose, dark orange-red, marked by numerous large dark 
dots, 7—11, usually about 8 mm. in diameter; calyx small with a 
broad, shallow cavity; flesh pale yellow-green, dry and mealy; nut- 
lets 2 or 3, full and rounded at the ends, prominently ridged on the 
broad rounded back, about 6 mm. in length. 
A tree occasionally 6 m. in height with a trunk r—1.5 dm. in diam- 
eter, covered with dark gray bark separating into small thin scale- 
like plates, wide-spreading and ascending branches forming a flat- 
tened dome-shaped head, more often shrubby with several stout stems 
and a broad round-topped or flattened head, 2-3 m. tall and broad; 
branchlets slender, nearly straight or slightly zigzag, marked by 
large pale lenticels, dark orange-green and slightly or densely villose 
or glabrous when they first appear, light red-brown and lustrous dur- 
ing their first season and dull gray-brown the following year, and 
armed with numerous slender nearly straight bright red-brown and 
shining ultimately ashy spines 3-6 cm. in length. Flowers during 
the first week in June. Fruit ripens late in September and begins 
to fall about the 1oth of October. In the autumn the leaves turn a 
dull yellow color. 
Connecticut: Abundant on the glacial gravel of Poquonomoc 
Plain east of Poquonomoc River and on adjacent boulder-covered 
ridges, Groton, C. B. Graves, June and September 1:i9or, C. S. 
Sargent, August 1902; Terrace north of Gales Ferry Cove, Ledyard, 
C. B. Graves, June and September 19or ; Southington, Z. Andrews, 
June and September 1902; North Canaan, C. ZZ. Bissell, September 
