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about the area. This combination has produced an ideal habitat for 
Eclipta, the conditions being not unlike those which prevail in its 
Southern home. Add to this the fact that the plant is a composite 
with the usual vitality of that group, and there is no reason why the 
plants should not continue to thrive and spread. 
FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS. 
RECENTLY RECOGNIZED. SPECIES OF CRATAEGUS IN 
EASTERN CANADA AND NEW ENGLAND,— VI. 
C. 5. SARGENT: 
(Continued from page 164.) 
Stamens Io or less. 
Mature leaves thin. 
Anthers pink. 
CRATAEGUS RHOMBIFOLIA, Sargent, RHODORA, V. 193. (1903.) 
This species, described from specimens gathered by Dr. C. B. 
Graves near Norwich, Connecticut, appears to be widely distributed 
through western New England and to cross the Hudson River into 
eastern New York. Massachusetts, Great Barrington, Brainerd and 
Sargent; Vermont, Ferrisburg, Brainerd; Twin Mountain, Rutland, 
Eggleston (nos. 2229 and 2343), and Gardener's Island (nos. 2320 
and 2343), Charlotte, Horsford in 1879: New York, Peck, North 
Greenbush (no. 69), Whitehall (no. 61), Crown Point, Zggleston (nos. 
| 2236 and 2264), Brainerd and Sargent in 1900. 
Crataegus Peckietta, n. sp. Leaves oblong-obovate to oval or 
broad-rhombic, short-pointed and acuminate at the apex, gradually 
narrowed and concave-cuneate at the entire base, sharply doubly ser- 
rate above, with straight glandular teeth and usually slightly and 
irregularly divided above the middle .into small acute lobes, nearly 
fully grown when the flowers open during the first week of June and 
then thin, yellow-green, lustrous and scabrate above, with short white 
hairs and pale and glabrous below with the exception of a few short 
hairs along the base of the veins, and at maturity thin but firm in 
texture, glabrous, yellow-green, smooth and lustrous on the upper 
and pale on the lower surface, 5-6 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide, with. 
