184 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
rounded at the gradually narrowed base, more coarsely serrate and 
more deeply lobed, and often 5-6 cm. long and 6-7 cm. wide, with 
stout rose-colored petioles broadly wing-margined below the middle 
and 1.2-1.5 cm. in length. Flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter, on 
slender elongated villose pedicels, in wide lax many-flowered hairy 
corymbs, with linear acuminate glandular bracts and bractlets fading 
brown; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, hairy at the base, glabrous 
above, the lobes slender, acuminate, entire or slightly and irregularly 
glandular-serrate, glabrous on the outer, puberulous or villose on the 
inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 7-10; anthers pale 
yellow ; styles 2 or 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 
pale hairs. Fruit ripening early in September and soon falling, on 
reddish villose pedicels, in many-fruited drooping clusters, subglobose 
or often a little longer than wide, crimson, lustrous, marked by occa- 
sional large pale dots, 8-10 mm. in diameter; calyx little enlarged, 
with a narrow shallow cavity and closely appressed lobes villose above 
and mostly persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, sweet and 
succulent; nutlets 2 or 3, full and rounded at the ends, rounded and 
irregularly ridged on the back, with a low often grooved ridge, pene- 
trated on the inner faces by small narrow cavities, about 6 mm. long 
and 4 mm. wide. 
A shrub 2-3 m. high, with numerous thick ascending stems form- 
ing an open irregular head, and very stout slightly zigzag branchlets 
marked by few large oblong pale lenticels, light orange-green and 
villose-pubescent when they first appear, becoming nearly glabrous, 
bright chestnut-red and very lustrous before winter, and dull reddish 
brown the following season, and armed with numerous stout crimson 
bright chestnut-brown shining ultimately dull gray spines 4.5—6 cm. 
long. 
Rocky hillsides; Wolf Pen Farm, Southborough, Worcester County, 
Massachusetts, C. S. Sargent, May and September 1904. 
This species is named for the late J. Montgomery Sears, by whom 
it was first shown to me on his farm at Southborough where also grew 
within an area of a few acres Crataegus conjuncta, Sarg., C. acutiloba, 
Sarg, here unusually remote from the coast, C. fucosa, Sarg., C. 
TAayeri, Sarg., C. flabellata, Spach, the only reported Massachusetts” 
station for this northern species, C. ¿ntricata, Lang., and C. Helenae, 
Sarg. l ‘ 
CRATAEGUS FERENTARIA, Sargent, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. iv. 
135+ (1903.) 
This species, first noticed in the neighborhood of Rochester, New 
York, now appears to be one of the most widely distributed New 
England species. 
