78 Rhodora [Mar 
decided the question. It is a red-brown pubescent fruit with firm 
flesh, and, when the type of leaves is considered, can represent no other 
American thorn than C. modesta Sarg. These facts, together with 
the cireumstance that the form in question is one of the few known 
from the Chesapeake Bay region ought to settle the status of C. 
coccinea L. | 
This species seems to have been rarely collected by the early Ameri- 
can botanists. It is represented in the Torrey herbarium (N. Y. 
Bot. Gard.) by a specimen from West Point, N. Y. (1825), in regard 
to which Dr. Gray recorded the opinion that this was exactly the C. 
glandulosa of Pursh as seen in the Barton herbarium. 
'The following synonyms appear to belong to this species: — C. 
coccinea, var. viridis 'T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 465 (1840), in part. C. 
intricata J. Lange, Bot. Tidssk. 19: 264 (1895). С. modesta Sarg. 
Rhod. 3: 28 (1901). C. premora Ashe, Ann. Car. Mus. 1: 391 (1902). 
The history of C. coccinea is rendered still more complex by the 
fact that Linnaeus in subsequent publications included in his species 
still other elements. Thus in the second edition of the Species Plan- 
tarum (1762) he added the description and cited the plate of Miller's 
Mespilus cordata. Finally in the Mantissa altera, 397 (1771) he 
gives a description which points to still a fifth species and group, 
namely to the plant here called C. rotundijolia, var. Faxoni. This 
last is the form taken up by Prof. Sargent for C. coccinea (Bot. Gaz. 
31: 12, 1901). 
It would take a small volume to discuss critically the forms taken 
up by authors since the time of Linnaeus for C. coccinea. Indeed the 
species has been made a sort of general dumping ground for unknown 
forms. 
C. TOMENTOSA L. C. uniflora Muench. Hausv. 5: 147 (1770). 
C. parvifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. I, 2: 169 (1789). C. tomentosa is 
another badly interpreted species. It also came from the Chesapeake 
Bay region (Banister) and as published by Linnaeus is a composite. 
The first paragraph relating to the species in L. Sp. Pl. ed. I, 1: 476 
(1753) ''Craetaegus foliis cuneiformi-ovatis serratis subangulatis 
subtus villosis, ramis spinosis. Habitat in Virginia" can refer to but 
one plant of this region; while the expression “‘ramis spinosis" will 
not fit the form C. tomentosa 'T. & G., and this form does not occur 
in the Chesapeake Bay region. In Sp. Pl. ed. II, 1: 682 (1762), 
Linnaeus adds “Mespilus virginiana, grossulariae foliis. Pluk. phyt. 
