202 Rhodora | [NovEMBER 
and rather lustrous in their first season and light gray-brown the fol- 
lowing year, and armed with numerous slender nearly straight brighi 
red-brown shining spines usually 2—3 cm. long. 
Roadsides and pastures, Lenox, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 
common, C. S. Sargent, September and October 1902, May 1904. 
Crataegus Paddockeae, n. sp. Leaves oblong ovate to oval, 
long-pointed and acuminate at the apex, full and rounded or rarely 
cuneate at the glandular base, finely doubly serrate above, with 
straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 5 or 6 pairs of 
small narrow acuminate lateral lobes, when they unfold slightly tinged 
with red, roughened above by short white hairs and glabrous below, 
more than half grown when the flowers open about the 20th of May 
and then very thin, light yellow-green and scabrate above, pale and 
glaucous below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, dark yellow- 
green, smooth and lustrous on the upper and pale on the lower sur- 
face, 5.5-7 cm. long and 4.5-5 cm. wide, with stout yellow midribs, 
and slender primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the lobes, 
petioles slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, nearly terete, 
glabrous, glandular, with scattered persistent glands, rose-colored in 
the autumn, 2—2.5 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots often 
cordate at the base, coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed, with broad, 
spreading lobes, thick and leathery, often 7-8 cm. long and broad, 
with dark rose-colored midribs and stout conspicuously glandular 
petioles. Flowers small (petals not seen), on slender elongated gla- 
brous pedicels, in mostly 10-12-flowered corymbs; calyx-tube nar- 
rowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, acuminate and red at the 
apex, entire, or sparingly glandular near the middle, glabrous on the 
outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; 
stamens 10; anthers small, rose color; styles 3 or 4. . Fruit ripening 
by the middle of September, on slender elongated reddish drooping 
pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong to obovate, full and 
rounded at the apex, narrowed below, lustrous, 1—1.2 cm. long, 8-10 
mm. wide; calyx little enlarged, with a wide deep cavity and closely 
appressed lobes slightly hairy on the upper side, persistent on the 
ripe fruit; nutlets 3 or 4, full and rounded at the base, gradually nar- 
rowed and rounded or acute at the apex, irregularly ridged on the 
back, with a high slightly grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and about 4 
mm. wide. 
A shrub 5-6 m. high, with numerous stems, spreading branches, 
and slender slightly zigzag branchlets marked by numerous small 
pale lenticels, dark orange-yellow and glabrous when they first appear, 
light chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their first winter and 
-dull dark red-brown the following year, and armed with many slender 
straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining spines 4-6 
cm. long and usually pointed toward the base of the branch. 
