216 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
An arborescent shrub 4-5 m. high, with a short trunk occasionally 
15-18 cm. in diameter, spreading branches forming à wide open 
head, and stout zigzag branchlets marked by oblong pale lenticels, 
dark orange green and slightly hairy when they first appear, becom- 
ing pale chestnut-brown and very lustrous, light reddish brown the 
following season, and ashy gray in their third year, and armed with 
very numerous slender nearly straight light chestnut-brown shining 
ultimately dull gray-brown spines 7-8 cm. long. 
Hillsides, Holderness, Grafton County, New Hampshire, at eleva- 
tions of from 250 to 300 m. above the sea, Z. S. Webster (no. 6 type! 
and 5), May and September 1903. 
This species is named for its discoverer, Mr. Laurence J. Webster 
of Holderness. 
Crataegus Lemingtonensis, n. sp. Leaves broadly ovate, acu- 
minate, rounded or cuneate at the broad base, finely often doubly 
serrate above, with slender straight glandular teeth, and divided into 
4 or 5 pairs of short narrow acuminate spreading lobes, about half 
grown when the flowers open during the last week in May and then 
thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by short white hairs 
and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, glabrous, yellow- 
green and smooth on the upper, paler on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. 
long and wide, with thin yellow midribs, and slender primary veins 
arching obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly 
wing-margined at the apex, glabrous, glandular, with minute scattered 
persistent glands, 2-3 cm. in length; stipules linear, glandular, fad- 
ing rose color, caducous ; leaves on vigorous shoots often truncate or 
subcordate at the broad base, coarsely serrate, more deeply divided 
into broad acuminate lobes, often 6 cm. long and wide. Flowers 
about 1.2 cm. in diameter, on elongated slender villose pedicels, in 
compact mostly 7- or 8-flowered hairy corymbs; calyx tube narrowly 
obconic, coated with long matted pale hairs, the lobes slender, acu- 
minate, slightly glandular-serrate, villose, reflexed after anthesis ; 
stamens 10; anthers pink; styles 3 or 4, surrounded at the base by 
a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening about the roth of 
September, on slender drooping slightly villose pedicels, in few-fruited 
clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, scarlet, lustrous, 
marked by occasional pale dots; calyx prominent, with a wide 
shallow cavity, and spreading or closely appressed lobes covered 
above with long white hairs, mostly persistent on the ripe fruit ; flesh 
thick, yellow, soft and succulent; nutlets usually 3, gradually nar- 
rowed and rounded at the ends, ridged on the back, with a broad 
deeply grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 
An arborescent shrub 4-5 m. high, with numerous ascending stems 
spreading into great thickets, and stout zigzag branchlets marked by 
