1903] Sargent,— Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 167 
surface, 5—6 cm. long, 4—5 cm. wide; petioles slender, wing-margined 
at the apex, deeply grooved, at first villose, soon glabrous occasionally 
glandular with minute scattered caducous glands 2—3 cm. in length; 
stipules linear, acuminate turning red before falling, caducous. 
Flowers 2 cm. in diameter on slender elongated villose pedicels, in 
lax many-flowered thin-branched villose corymbs ; bracts and bractlets 
linear, acuminate, glandular-serrate, caducous ; calyx-tube narrowly 
obconic, thickly coated with long matted white hairs, the lobes broad, 
acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, glabrous; stamens 10; anthers 
pink; styles 3, surrounded at the base by a broad ring of pale 
tomentum. Fruit on long slightly hairy pedicels, in many-fruited 
gracefully drooping clusters, obovate and gradually narrowed at the 
base, bright scarlet, lustrous ; calyx small, sessile, with a small deep 
cavity and spreading mostly appressed lobes often deciduous from 
the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3, acute at 
the ends, prominently ridged on the broad back, with a high rounded 
ridge, about 8 mm. in length. 
A shrub sometimes 4 or 5 m. in height with numerous stems form- 
ing an open head often broader than high, and comparatively slender 
nearly straight branchlets light orange-green and hairy when they 
first appear, with pale hairs, mostly caducous, but occasionally 
persistent until autumn, light red-brown, lustrous and marked by 
large pale lenticels during their first season, becoming darker in their 
second and usually ashy gray in their third year, and armed with 
many stout straight or slightly curved red-brown and lustrous ulti- 
_ mately ashy gray spines 5—7.5 cm. in length. Flowers during the 
first week of June. Fruit ripens at the end of September and soon 
falls. 
MaInE: valley of the lower Aroostook River, river banks at Fort 
Fairfield, July 1893, June and September 1901, M. L. Fernald; 
Valley of the St. John River at Fort Kent, July 1900, E. F. Williams. 
Crataegus Fernaldi with its lax elongated extremely villose corymbs, 
large flowers, pink anthers, and pear-shaped fruits gracefully droop- 
ing on their long stems in wide clusters, is one of the most distinct 
plants in this group, and one of the interesting discoveries made by 
the industrious and successful explorer and student of the flora of 
Maine whose name is appropriately associated with it. 
CRATAEGUS PRAECOX, Sargent, RHODORA, iii. 27 (1902). Thisname 
having been used by Loudon for the early flowering Glastonbury 
Thorn, a variety of Crataegus Oxyacantha (Arb. Brit. ii. 833 [1830]), 
I propose the name of Crataegus praecoqua for this American 
species. It was through an error that the anthers of the type of 
