1905] Sargent, Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 207 
by short white hairs and villose below along the midribs and veins, 
and at maturity thin, bluish green and scabrate on the upper and yel- 
low-green on the lower surface, 6-7 cm. long and 5-6 cm. wide, with 
stout yellow midribs, and slender sparingly villose or pubescent 
primary veins; petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex, nearly 
terete, villose through the season, tinged with rose color at the base 
in the autumn, 2.5-3 cm. in length; stipules lanceolate, glandular, 
caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots slightly cordate at the broad 
base, coarsely serrate, more deeply lobed, thicker, often 10-12 cm. 
long and 8-9 cm. wide, with stout broadly winged conspicuously 
glandular petioles, and foliaceous lunate coarsely serrate persistent 
stipules. Flowers 2 cm. in diameter, on slender elongated villose 
pedicels, in compact hairy usually 8 -12-flowered corymbs, with oblong- 
obovate to linear glandular bracts and bractlets mostly persistent 
until the flowers open; calyx tube narrowly obconic, clothed with 
matted pale hairs, the lobes broad, acuminate, coarsely glandular 
serrate usually only below the middle, glabrous on the outer, villose 
on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 10; anthers 
pale pink; styles 5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of 
pale tomentum. Fruit ripening at the end of September, on stout 
slightly villose drooping pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short-oblong 
to oblong, full and rounded and pubescent at the ends, slightly con- 
cave at the insertion of the pedicels, bright orange-red, lustrous, 
marked by numerous small dark dots, 1.6-2 cm. long and 1.5-1.8 cm. 
wide; calyx only little enlarged, with a deep narrow cavity, and erect 
laciniately glandular-serrate lobes rose-colored on the inner side 
toward the base and persistent on the ripe fruit; flesh thick, yellow, 
slightly juicy, firm and hard; nutlets 5, narrow and rounded at the 
base. acute at the apex, slightly and irregularly ridged on the back, 
8-9 mm. long and 5-6 mm. wide. 
A pyramidal arborescent shrub, with erect stems covered with 
ashy gray bark, small spreading and ascending branches, and stout 
slightly zigzag branchlets marked by many small lenticels, green 
slightly tinged with red and sparingly villose when they first appear, 
soon glabrous and dark olive green and lustrous, light olive green in 
their second season, and armed with many stout nearly straight light 
chestnut-brown shining spines 4-5 cm. long. 
The description of this plant is drawn from a specimen cultivated 
in Olmsted Park, Boston. This is one of 700 plants, all similar in 
habit and foliage and in the characters of the flowers and fruit 
planted in the Boston parks and raised about fifteen years ago at 
the Framingham nurseries in South Framingham, Massachusetts, 
from seeds produced by a plant still growing in the Harvard Botanic 
Garden. The origin of this plant is unknown. It is one of a collec- 
