636 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



diameter, on short stout hairy pedicels, in compact 3-6-flowered villose 

 corymbs; the bracts and bractlets lanceolate, conspicuously glandular- 

 serrate, with stipitate large dark glands; calyx-tube broadly obconic, 

 villose, the lobes lanceolate, glandular-serrate, coated with matted pale 

 hairs; stamens 10; anthers large, pale yellow; styles 3, surrounded at 

 the base by tufts of matted white hairs. Fruit erect on short villose 

 pedicels, subglobose and flattened at the ends to short-oblong or obo- 

 vate, 1-1.2 cm. long and 8-9 mm. wide, bright yellow, or orange with 

 a red cheek, marked by numerous large dark spots, hairy at the ends; 

 calyx high and prominent with a broad deep cavity, the lobes small, 

 linear-lanceolate, glandular-serrate, spreading, mostly deciduous; flesh 

 thick, light yellow, sweet, dry and mealy; nutlets 3, broad, rounded 

 and obtuse at the ends, conspicuously ridged on the back, with a broad 

 thick grooved ridge, 6-7 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. 



A shrub, with numerous much-branched slender stems 2-3 m. high, 

 and slender branchlets bright chestnut-brown and lustrous during their 

 first season, later becoming dull gray-brown, and armed with thin 

 straight spines f-H inches long. 



Berks county: Near Kutztown, C. L. Gruher (No. 49), 1902; Griiher 

 and Sargent, October, 1904. Also western New England, from Yer- 

 mont to Connecticut, and in eastern New York. 

 2. Crataegus abjecta n. sp. 



Cratcegus hiltmoriana Small, Porter, Fl. Penn., 177 (not Beadle) (1903). 



Leaves ovate to rhombic or oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 gradually or abruptly narrowed and cuneate at the glandular base, 

 finely doubly serrate above, with straight gland-tipped teeth, and 

 slightly divided above the middle into short broad acute lobes, more 

 than half-grown when the flowers open during the first week of June 

 and then thin, light yellow-green and roughened above by short white 

 hairs and pale and slightly hairy below along the midribs and veins, and 

 at maturity subcoriaceous, dark bluish-green and scabrate on the upper 

 and pale and still slightly villose on the slender midribs and veins on the 

 lower surface, 4-6 cm. long and 2.5-4.5 cm. wide; petioles stout, deeply 

 grooved on the upper side, wing-margined sometimes nearly to the 

 base, conspicuously glandular, slightly villose early in the season, 

 becoming glabrous, 1-2 cm. in length; leaves on vigorous shoots 

 broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, often rounded at the base, sometimes 

 3-lobed by deep narrow sinuses, and 5-6 cm. long and broad, with 

 stouter broadly winged petioles 1.5-2 cm. long. Flowers about 2 cm. 

 in diameter, on slender elongated pedicels, sparingly covered with long 

 white hairs, in compact usually simple mostly 5-7-flowered corymbs, 



