178 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
on the upper side, glabrous, 3-4 cm. in length. Flowers 1.8-2 cm. 
in diameter, on slender elongated glabrous pedicels, in broad lax 
usually 6—10-flowered corymbs, with linear obovate to lanceolate 
minutely glandular bracts and bractlets, fading rose color and mostly 
deciduous before the flowers open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, gla- 
brous, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, acuminate, 
glandular-serrate usually only near the middle, glabrous on the outer, 
puberulous on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; 
anthers creamy white; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a 
ring of long white hairs. Fruit ripening at the end of September, on 
long slender drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, subglobose, 
bright scarlet, lustrous, marked by occasional large pale dots, 1—1.2 
cm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and 
spreading reflexed or incurved lobes villose-pubescent above and 
dark red toward the base on the upper side ; flesh thin, light yellow, 
slightly acid ; nutlets 2 or 3, narrowed and rounded at the ends or 
when 3 acute at the apex, prominently ridged on the back, with a 
broad high deeply grooved ridge, penetrated on the inner faces by 
broad shallow irregular cavities, 7-8 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide. 
A shrub, with stout zigzag branchlets marked by numerous small 
oblong pale lenticels, light orange-green and glabrous when they 
first appear, bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their 
first season and ultimately dark gray-brown, and armed with slender 
slightly curved purplish spines 4—6 cm. long. 
Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts, 7. G. Jack (no. 8 type), 
May and September, 1903. 
This distinct and handsome species is named for Miss Louise 
Holmes Handy of Fall River who first called my attention to the 
presence of several species of Crataegus in Fall River and Somerset. 
Crataegus Stratfordensis, n. sp. Leaves oval to obovate, 
acuminate, gradually narrowed and concave-cuneate or, on vigorous 
shoots, rounded at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with 
straight glandular teeth and slightly divided above the middle into 4 
or 5 pairs of short acuminate lobes, more than half grown when the 
flowers open during the first week of June and then thin, pale yellow- 
green and puberulous on the midribs above and pale and sparingly 
villose below along the midribs and veins, with short white persistent 
hairs, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, yellow-green and gla- 
brous on the upper and paler yellow-green on the lower surface, 6-9 
cm. long and 4.5-5 cm. wide, with slender light yellow midribs and 
6-8 pairs of thin primary veins; petioles slender, wing-margined to 
the middle, deeply grooved on the upper side, 1-2 cm. long. Flowers 
about 1.5 in diameter, on slender elongated sparingly villose pedicels, 
in broad lax many-flowered corymbs, with linear obovate to lanceolate 
rose-colored bracts and bractlets mostly deciduous before the flowers 
