1903] Sargent,— Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 165 
persistent; flesh thick, greenish yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 
4, thick, acute at the ends, prominently ridged on the back, with a 
broad often grooved ridge, 5-6 mm. long. 
An arborescent shrub beginning to flower when not more than 
1.5 metres high, and when fully grown often 6 or 7 metres in height, 
with numerous stems sometimes 3 dcm. in diameter, forming an 
open irregular head, and stout zigzag branchlets sparingly marked 
by oblong pale lenticels, villose and yellow-green when they first 
appear, soon glabrous, bright red-brown and lustrous during their 
first season, ashy gray or light brown the following year, and armed 
with numerous stout straight bright chestnut-brown spines 5—7 cm. 
in length. Flowers June rst. Fruit ripens at the end of September 
and often remains on the branches until the end of October or until 
after the leaves have fallen. 
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC: valley of the St. Lawrence River near the 
City of Quebec, Montmorency Falls, September 1900, May and 
September 1901, Levis, September 1900, May and September 1900, 
Isle of Orleans, September 1900, May and September 1901, /. G. 
Jack; banks of St. Charles River, City of Quebec, May and October 
1902, &. Bell. A specimen with immature fruit collected by Mr. 
Ezra Brainerd at Roberal, Lake St. John, Province of Quebec, 
August 11, 19or, is probably of this species. 
This handsome shrub, first found near the city where he lived 
for many years, recalls in its name that of the Abbé Ovide Brunet, a 
professor at Lavalle University and the author of important papers 
on the trees and other plants of Canada. 
Crataegus Keepii, n. sp. Leaves obovate to rhombic, rarely to 
oval, acuminate, gradually narrowed to the entire glandular base, 
finely sometimes doubly serrate above, with straight teeth tipped with 
large dark red persistent glands, and slightly divided above the 
middle into 3 to 5 pairs of short acuminate lobes; nearly fully 
grown when the flowers open and then membranaceous, dark green 
and slightly hairy above, with white caducous hairs and pale and 
glabrous below; at maturity coriaceous, dark green and very lus- 
trous on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, 4-6 cm. long, 
3-4 cm. wide, with stout yellow midribs deeply impressed above 
like the slender, primary veins arching to the points of the lobes; 
petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex by the decurrent base of 
the leaf blades, slightly grooved, glandular, at first sparingly hairy, 
soon glabrous, often rose color in the autumn, 2—2.5 cm. in length; 
stipules linear; acuminate turning red before falling. Flowers on 
elongated slender slightly villose pedicels, in lax 6—1:1-flowered thin- 
