628 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



ring of white tomentiim. Fr-uit ripening from the middle to the end 

 of August; in few-fruited drooping puberulous corymbs, globose, obo- 

 vate or rarely oblong, full and rounded at the ends, bright orange-red. 

 marked by large pale dots, puberulous toward the base, 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 1-2 cm. wide; calyx enlarged, with a broad deep cavity and lobes 

 gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, coarsely serrate 

 usually only above the middle, puberulous, bright red on the upper side 

 toward the base, closely appressed or rarely erect and incurved; flesh 

 thick, yellow, dry and mealy; nutlets 3 or 4, thin, acute at the narrow 

 ends, very irregularly ridged on the rounded back, 7-8 mm. long and 

 4-5 mm. wide. 



A shrub 4—5 m. high, with numerous stout stems forming a broad 

 head, and thick slightly zigzag branchlets at first villose, soon glabrous, 

 dark red-brown, lustrous and marked by numerous large oblong white 

 lenticels during their first season, ashy-gray and lustrous during their 

 second year and ultimately darker, and armed with stout straight or 

 slightly curved bright chestnut-brown shining spines 4-5 cm. long. 



Chester county: Along Brandywine creek below Sager's Mill, W. M. 

 Canbij (No. 4), October, 1902, May and September, 1903. Philadel- 

 phia county: Bartram's Garden, A. MacElwee (Nos. 72A and 76, Herb. 

 Philadelphia Museums), May, 1899, June, 1901; B. H. Smith, 1903. 

 Delaware county: Preston Run Barrens, Newtown, B. H. Smith (No. 

 222), May, 1903. Berks county : C. L. Gruber (No. 129), 1902, May and 

 August, 1903. Also in New Castle county, Delaware. 



It is interesting to find that this common Delaware species was prob- 

 ably known to John Bartram, as the old specimen in his garden, judging 

 from its size and age, may have been planted there during his lifetime. 

 2. Crataegus digna n. sp. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, full and rounded or con- 

 cave-cuneate at the wide entire base, coarsely doubly serrate above, 

 with straight glandular teeth, and slightly divided into 4 or 5 pairs of 

 short acute lateral lobes, less than one- third grown when the flowers 

 open during the first week of May and then coated above with soft 

 wdiite hairs and villose below along the midribs and veins, and at matur- 

 ity thin, yellow-green and sparingly short-pubescent or glabrate on the 

 upper, paler and still slightly hairy on the lower surface along the thin 

 midribs and in the axils of the slender primary veins arching obliquely 

 to the points of the lobes, 7-8 cm. long and 6-7 cm. wide; petioles 

 slender, grooved on the upper side, at first villose, becoming glabrous 

 or nearly glabrous, sparingly glandular, with minute often persistent 

 glands, 1.5-4 cm. long. Flowers 1.5-2.2 cm. in diameter, on stout 



