212 Rhodora [NovEMBER 
maturity subcoriaceous, bright green, lustrous and sparingly hairy 
along the midribs on the upper and pale yellow-green and glabrous 
on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 3.5-4 cm. wide, with stout 
yellow midribs rose-colored below toward the base, and slender promi- 
nent primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes: 
petioles slender, narrowly wing-margined at the apex, grooved and 
villose on the upper side, glandular, with bright red mostly deciduous 
glands, rose-colored in the autumn, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; stipules oblong, 
acute, glandular, fading rose color, caducous; leaves on vigorous 
shoots broadly ovate, abruptly pointed or occasionally cuneate at the 
base, often 4 or 5 cm. long and 4 cm. wide. Flowers about 1.5 cm. 
in diameter, on elongated slender pedicels covered with long scattered 
white hairs, in wide lax many-flowered hairy corymbs, with oblong- 
obovate to linear bright rose-colored glandular bracts and bractlets 
mostly persistent until after the flowers have opened ; calyx-tube nar- 
rowly obconic, glabrous or sparingly villose near the base, the lobes 
broad, gradually narrowed to the red glandular acuminate apex, 
obscurely serrate near the middle, glabrous on the outer, villose on 
the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens ro ; anthers light 
pink; styles 3 or 4. Fruit ripening the middle of September, on 
stout slightly hairy erect red pedicels, in few-fruited clusters, short- 
oblong to subglobose, crimson, marked by large pale dots, about 1 
cm. in diameter; calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity and 
spreading lobes glandular-serrate above the middle, dark red and 
villose on the upper side, mostly persistent on the ripe fruit ; flesh yel- 
low, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, full and rounded at the ends, 
slightly ridged on the back, with a low narrow ridge, sometimes 
obscurely and irregularly pitted on the inner face, light-colored, 
about 7 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 
A tall much branched shrub forming wide thickets, with slender 
nearly straight branchlets marked by occasional large pale lenticels 
light yellow-green more or less tinged with red and nearly glabrous 
when they first appear, soon becoming bright chestnut-brown, dull red- 
dish brown in their second and ashy gray in their third year, and armed 
with slender straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining 
spines 4.5-6 cm. long. 
Hillside pastures at an altitude of about 5oo metres, Concord, 
Essex County, Vermont; very abundant. W. W. Eggleston (nos. 
3404, 3405 and 3405 A, type!), May and September 1903 and May 
1905. 
This species is named for Miss Mary Ellen Ide of the Fairbanks 
Botanical Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont. 
