218 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
pale lenticels, orange-green more or less tinged with red and slightly 
hairy, with scattered pale hairs, when they first appear, soon gla- 
brous, bright chestnut-brown and very lustrous during their first 
season and light reddish brown the following year, and armed with 
numerous straight or slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining 
spines 3.5-5 cm. long. 
Hillsides, West Concord, Essex County, Vermont, W. W. Eggles- 
ton (no. 3403 type! ), May and September 1903. 
Crataegus Blanchardi, n. sp. Leaves ovate, short-pointed and 
acuminate at the apex, abruptly or gradually narrowed and cuneate 
at the entire base, finely often doubly serrate above, with straight 
glandular teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of narrow acuminate 
lateral lobes, when they unfold bronze color, glandular at the base, 
and covered with long white hairs more abundant on the upper than 
on the lower surface, nearly half grown when the flowers open about 
the 20th of May and then thin, yellow-green above and paler and 
sparingly villose below along the midribs and veins, and at maturity 
subcoriaceous, dark green and lustrous on the upper and pale yellow- 
green and almost glabrous:on the lower surface, 4.5-6 cm. long and 
4.5-5 cm. wide, with stout yellow midribs and slender veins arching 
obliquely to the points of the lobes; petioles slender, wing-margined 
at the apex, slightly grooved, at first villose, becoming glabrous, and 
glandular, with minute mostly caducous glands; stipules linear, glan- 
dular, fading brown, caducous ; leaves on vigorous shoots rounded or 
truncate at the base, coarsely serrate, deeply lobed, 6-7 cm. long and 
wide, with stout broadly winged petioles glandular through the season. 
Flowers 1r.5—1.7 cm. in diameter, on long stout densely villose pedi- 
cels, in thick-branched hairy corymbs, with oblong to linear obovate 
glandular bracts and bractlets often persistent until the flowers open; 
calyx-tube broadly obconic, covered below with long matted pale hairs 
and glabrous above, the lobes gradually narrowed from wide bases, 
short, acuminate, glandular-serrate near the middle, glabrous on the 
outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; 
stamens 20; anthers pale pink, styles 3-5, surrounded at the base 
by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening at the end of Septem- 
ber, on thick erect slightly villose pedicels, in few often 3-—6-fruited 
clusters, short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, dark cherry red, 
lustrous, marked by small pale dots; calyx little enlarged, with a 
wide shallow cavity, and spreading and appressed serrate lobes villose 
on the upper side and often deciduous from the ripe fruit ; flesh thick, 
yellow, soft and pulpy; nutlets 3-5, rounded at the base, acute at the 
apex, ridged on the back, usually with a high narrow slightly grooved 
ridge, or when only 3 full and rounded at the ends, with a broad 
deeply grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and about 4 mm. wide. 
A shrub 3-4 m. high, with numerous stems spreading into thickets, 
