1905] Sargent, Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 199 
branches covered with dark scaly bark, and slender nearly straight 
branchlets marked by small oblong lenticels, dull orange color and 
glabrous when they first appear, light chestnut-brown and lustrous 
during their first winter and dull reddish brown in their second year, 
and armed with slender nearly straight light chestnut-brown shining 
ultimately dull gray-brown spines 3-4 cm. long. 
Moist rich pastures, Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, C. 
H. Bissell (no. 71 type!), September 1903, May 1904; Bissell and 
Sargent, September 1905. 
‘TENUIFOLIAE. 
Anthers rose color. 
Stamens 10 or less. 
Crataegus culta, n. sp. Leaves ovate, acuminate, broad and 
rounded at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight 
glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 5 or 6 pairs of slender acu- 
minate lobes, about half grown when the flowers open the middle of 
May and then dark yellow-green and roughened above by short white 
hairs and pale bluish green and glabrous below, and at maturity thick 
and firm, glabrous, dark blue-green on the upper and paler on the 
lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 3-4 cm. wide, with stout midribs 
rose-colored below toward the base in the autumn, and slender 
obscure primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the 
lobes; petioles slender, grooved and sparingly villose while young 
on the upper side, soon glabrous, glandular, with minute dark often 
persistent glands, rose-colored in the autumn, 1.5-3 cm. in length. 
Flowers about 1.5 cm. in diameter, on slender elongated glabrous 
pedicels, in broad lax usually 10-12-flowered corymbs, with linear 
glandular caducous bracts and bractlets; calyx-tube narrowly ob- 
conic, glabrous, the lobes slender, long-pointed and acuminate at 
the rose-colored glandular apex, entire or sparingly dentate near the 
middle, glabrous, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 5-10; filaments ` 
rose color, persistent on the fruit; anthers dark rose color; styles 3 
or 4. Fruit ripening and falling late in September, on slender droop- 
ing pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong or ovate to subglo- 
bose, depressed at the insertion of the stalk, crimson, lustrous, marked 
by minute pale dots, 1—1.3 cm. long; calyx little enlarged with a nar- 
row deep cavity, and spreading or reflexed lobes abruptly narrowed 
from broad bases, long-pointed, entire or obscurely and irregularly 
dentate, dark red on the upper side below the middle, mostly persist- 
ent on the ripe fruit ; flesh thin, slightly juicy, greenish yellow; nut- 
lets usually 3, rounded at the ends or, when 4, acute at the apex, 
ridged on the back, with a broad low grooved ridge, dark-colored, 
about 5 mm. long and nearly as wide. 
