1905] Sargent, Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 195 
ules linear-obovate, glandular, fading rose color or brown, mostly 
fallen before the flowers open; leaves on vigorous shoots more 
coarsely serrate and more deeply lobed, often 8-10 cm. long and 
7-8 cm. wide, with stout petioles conspicuously glandular through 
the season, and foliaceous lunate coarsely serrate persistent stipules. 
Flowers 1.6—1.9 cm. in diameter, on elongated slender glabrous pedi- 
cels, in usually 5—7-flowered corymbs, with linear-obovate acuminate 
glandular bracts and bractlets usually persistent until after the flow- 
ers open; calyx-tube broadly obconic, glabrous, the lobes wide, short- 
acuminate, usually dentate above the middle, with minute glandular 
teeth, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 15-20, usually 16-18; anthers 
pale rose color; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening in October and falling 
before the end of the month, on slender pendulous pedicels, in few- 
fruited clusters, oblong to slightly obovate, usually pointed and more 
or less angled at the base, gradually narrowed at the apex, light red 
or purplish, pruinose, 1—1.2 cm. long and 8-9 mm. wide; calyx little 
enlarged, with a short tube, a deep narrow cavity, and spreading and 
reflexed usually persistent lobes; flesh thin, hard and dry, greenish 
or yellowish white, sometimes tinged with red; nutlets 3 or 4, nar- 
rowed at the ends, acute at the apex, ridged on the back, with a low 
broad slightly grooved ridge, about 8 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 
A sparingly branched shrub 2-4 m. high, with long spreading 
and ascending stems covered with pale gray bark darker and rougher 
near their base, and stout zigzag branchlets marked by small oblong 
dark lenticels, orange-brown and glabrous when they first appear, 
dull olive or olive-brown during their first year, becoming gray-brown 
the following season, and armed with many slender slightly curved 
purplish shining spines 5-7 cm. long. 
Near Hopeville, New London County, Connecticut, in the valley of 
the Quinebaug River, C. B. Graves (no. 57 type!), May, July and 
October 1904. 
Stamens 10 or less. 
CRATAEGUS BELLULA, Sarg., Trees and Shrubs,i, 111,t. 56. (1903.) 
I have referred to this species, known previously only in the neighbor- 
hood of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a large nearly aborescent plant 
discovered in Somerset, Massachusetts, by Mr. J. G. Jack (no. 6), 
May and September 1903. If this reference is correct Crataegus 
bellula is interesting as another instance of the occurrence of a spe- 
cies of this genus in remote regions without intermediate stations, 
for the country between southern Massachusetts and central Michigan 
has been so carefully examined for Crataegus that it is hardly prob- 
