194 Rhodora [NovEMBER 
arching obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, slightly 
wing-margined at the apex, occasionally sparingly glandular, 2-3.5 
cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded or sometimes cor- 
date at the base, coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, with stout 
wing-margined glandular rose-colored petioles. Flowers about 2 cm. 
in diameter, on short slender glabrous pedicels, in usually 4-7-flow- 
ered corymbs, with linear acuminate glandular rose-colored bracts 
and bractlets mostly deciduous before the flowers open; calyx-tube 
broadly obconic, the lobes short, gradually narrowed, acuminate, 
minutely glandular on the margins, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis ; 
stamens 20; anthers pale pink; styles 4 or 5. Fruit ripening the 
middle of October, on short stout erect pedicels, in few-fruited clus- 
ters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the apex, slightly narrowed at 
the base, dull brown, pruinose, 1—1.2 cm. in diameter ; calyx promi- 
nent, with a short tube, a broad deep cavity and spreading and 
reflexed lobes dark red on the upper side below the middle; flesh 
thin, yellow-green, dry and mealy; nutlets usually 4 or 5, broad and 
rounded at the base, gradually narrowed and rounded at the apex, 
ridged on the back, with a high narrow ridge, light-colored, 7-8 mm. 
long and 4-5 mm. wide. 
A tree with a short trunk and spreading branches forming a round- 
topped head, and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by oblong 
pale lenticels, orange-green more or less tinged with red when they 
first appear, bright chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first 
year and light gray tinged with red the following season, and armed 
with slender slightly curved purplish shining spines 4-5 cm. long. 
Pastures near Burlington, Vermont, W. W. Eggleston (nos. 2282, 
2346, 2874 type!), September and October 1901, May and June 1902, 
June 1903. 
Anthers rose-color. 
Stamens 15-20. 
.Crataegus Quinebaugensis, n. sp. Leaves rhombic, acuminate, 
cuneate and entire at the base, finely often doubly serrate above, 
with slender glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into 2 or 
3 pairs of broad short acuminate lobes, nearly one-third grown when 
the flowers open about the 20th of May and then thin and glabrous, 
light yellow-green and very smooth above and pale bluish green 
below, and at maturity subcoriaceous, dark blue-green and lustrous 
on the upper and pale blue-green on the lower surface, 6-7 cm. long 
and 5-6 cm. wide, with slender yellow midribs, and thin primary 
veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, 
slightly wing-margined at the apex, nearly terete, glandular, with 
minute dark red stipitate deciduous glands, 2-3 cm. in length; stip- 
