210 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
elongated glabrous pedicels, in usually 12-15-flowered corymbs, with 
linear-obovate to lanceolate glandular bracts and bractlets, bright 
rose color like the inner bud-scales and deciduous before the flowers 
open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, glabrous, the lobes glandular- 
serrate usually only above the middle, or occasionally nearly entire, 
glabrous, reflexed after anthesis: stamens 20; anthers pale pink; 
styles 3, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. 
Fruit ripening at the end of September, on slender pedicels, in few- 
fruited clusters, short-oblong, lustrous, dull orange-red, about 1 cm. 
long and 7 cm. wide; calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity, 
and appressed lobes mostly deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, 
yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3, rounded at the ends, slightly 
ridged on the back, with a broad low ridge, sometimes slightly hollow 
on the inner faces, 7-8 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 
An arborescent shrub 3-4 m. high, with ascending stems and 
stout nearly straight branchlets marked by small pale lenticels, deeply 
tinged with red and glabrous when they first appear, light chestnut- 
brown and very lustrous during their first winter and dark gray the 
following year, and armed with many stout nearly straight light chest- 
nut-brown shining spines 2.5-5 cm. long. 
Roadsides near Middlebury, Vermont, Ezra Brainerd (no. 6 A), 
May and September 1900, May 1901. 
Formerly referred to C. Brainerdi, Sarg., but now distinguished 
from that species by the shape of the leaves, the color of the anthers 
the smaller fruits and by the more arborescent habit. It is named 
for Henry Martin Seely (1828—), for many years professor of chem- 
istry and natural history in Middlebury College, teacher of botany 
and distinguished paleontologist. 
Stamens 7-10. 
Crataegus cyclophylla, n. sp. Leaves broadly ovate to subor- 
bicular or rarely rhombic, short-pointed and acuminate at the apex, 
cuneate and entire at the base, sharply doubly serrate above, with 
straight or incurved glandular teeth, and slightly divided above the 
middle into 4 or 5 pairs of slender acuminate lobes, faintly tinged 
with red when they unfold, about half-grown when the flowers open 
the rst of June and then thin, light yellow-green and somewhat rough- 
ened above by short white hairs and pale and glabrous below, and at 
maturity thick to subcoriaceous, dark yellow-green, lustrous, smooth 
or still slightly rough on the upper and pale on the lower surface, 5-6 
cm. long and 4-5.5 cm. wide, with thick yellow midribs, and stout 
primary veins arching obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles 
slender, slightly wing-margined at the apex, grooved on the upper 
