1905) Sargent, Recently Recognized Species of Crataegus 217 
oblong pale lenticels, pale yellow-green and glabrous when they first 
appear, dull chestnut-brown during their first and light gray-brown in 
their second year, and armed with stout slightly curved chestnut- 
brown shining spines 4-5 cm. long and often pointed toward the 
base of the branch. 
Hillsides, Essex County, Vermont; common; Lemington, Canaan, 
Bloomfield, W. W. Eggleston (no. 3408 type! Lemington) ; also the 
adjacent parts of New Hampshire. 
Stamens 20; anthers pink. 
Crataegus insolens, n. sp. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute or acu- 
minate, gradually or abruptly cuneate or rounded at the base, finely 
often doubly serrate, with straight or incurved teeth tipped with 
bright red glands, and sharply and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs 
of slender acuminate lobes, deeply tinged with red and covered above 
when they unfold with soft white hairs and glabrous below, more than 
half grown when the flowers open during the last week of May and 
then thin but firm in texture, pale yellow-green, still hairy and slightly 
roughened above and pale or glaucous below, and at maturity thin, 
dark green and nearly smooth on the upper and pale yellow-green 
on the lower surface, 4-5 cm. long and 3-3.5 cm. wide, and on vig- 
orous shoots 6-7 cm. long and 5-6 cm. wide, with slender yellow 
midribs, and thin primary veins extending obliquely to the points 
of the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined at the apex, slightly 
grooved, glandular near the apex, with minute mostly early decid- 
uous glands, glabrous, 2.5-3 cm. in length. Flowers on long slender 
slightly villose pedicels, in usually 7-10-flowered hairy corymbs, the 
lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves, their bracts and 
bractlets linear, glandular, fading brown, caducous ; calyx-tube nar- 
rowly obconic, glabrous, or villose at the base, the lobes gradually 
narrowed from wide bases, acuminate, irregularly glandular-dentate 
near the middle, glabrous on the outer, sparingly villose on the 
inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers small, 
pink; styles 3-5. Fruit ripening the middle of September, on erect 
reddish pedicels, in 1—3-fruited clusters, short-oblong, rounded at the 
ends, scarlet, lustrous, 1-1.2 cm. long and 8-10 mm. wide; calyx 
little enlarged, with a broad shallow cavity, and spreading and re- 
flexed lobes, their tips often deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, 
yellow-green, dry and hard; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the obtuse ends, 
or when more than 3 narrowed at the ends and acute at the apex, 
ridged on the back with a broad often deeply grooved ridge, about 
7 mm. long and 4 mm. wide. 
A shrub 3-4 m. high, with numerous stems spreading into broad 
thickets, and slender nearly straight branchlets marked by oblong 
