1905] Sargent, Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 209 
first appear, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous, in 
their first season, gray tinged with red the following year and ulti- 
mately ashy gray, and armed with slender straight or slightly curved 
bright chestnut-brown shining spines 3-4 cm. long. 
Rocky pastures near Balance Rock, Lanesborough, Berkshire 
County, Massachusetts, C. E. Faxon, September 1899, C. S. Sargent, 
October, 1902, May 1904. 
The relationship of this species is with the widely distributed C. 
Holmesiana, Ashe, from which it differs in its broad-ovate, not oval 
leaves, larger flowers and obovate later-ripening fruit. 
ANOMALAE, Sarg. RHODORA, lil. 29 (1901). 
Leaves cuneate, thickish to subcoriaceous, scabrate above while 
young; petioles slender, elongated. Flowers in many-flowered 
corymbs ; anthers rose-colored or pink. Fruit short-oblong, orange- 
scarlet, 1-1.4 cm. in length; nutlets occasionally furnished with 
obscure ventral depressions. Mostly arborescent shrubs, all of west- 
ern New England, eastern New York and the St. Lawrence valley 
near Montreal. 
To this group, which is intermediate between the Zomentosae and 
the Coccineae, may be referred in addition to the following C. asperi- 
folia, Sarg., C. scabrida, Sarg., C. Brainerdi, Sarg, and C. Eggle- 
stoni, Sarg. 
Stamens 20. 
Crataegus Seelyana, n.sp. Leaves obovate to oval, acuminate 
and often short-pointed at the apex, gradually narrowed and concave- 
cuneate at the entire base, finely doubly serrate above, with straight 
glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the middle into 4 or 5 
pairs of short spreading acuminate lobes, when they unfold coated 
above with short white lustrous hairs and glabrous below, about half- 
grown when the flowers open at the end of May and then thin, yel- 
low-green and slightly roughened above and pale below, and at 
maturity thick, glabrous, smooth and dark yellow-green on the upper, 
and pale or glaucous on the lower surface, 5—6.5 cm. long and 3.5-5 
cm. wide, with stout yellow midribs, and slender veins extending 
obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined 
at the apex, slightly grooved, glabrous, sparingly glandular, about 2 
cm. in length ; stipules linear, acuminate, glandular, bright rose color, 
caducous; leaves on vigorous shoots abruptly long-pointed, often 
rounded at the broad base, more deeply lobed, sometimes 6—7 cm. 
long and 4-5 cm. wide. Flowers 1.8 cm. in diameter, on slender 
