660 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Sept., 



glandular bracts and bractlets mostly deciduous before the flowers 

 open; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, villose at the base only, the lobes 

 gradually narrowed, acuminate, deeply laciniately serrate, with gland- 

 tipped teeth, glabrous on the outer, slightly villose on the inner surface, 

 reflexed after anthesis; stamens 20; anthers pale yellow; styles 2 or 3, 

 surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit 

 ripening early in October, on long red slightly hairy spreading or droop- 

 ing pedicels, in many-fruited clusters, depressed-globose to short-oblong, 

 scarlet, lustrous, translucent when fully ripe, 1-1.2 cm. in diameter; 

 calyx enlarged and prominent, with a deep narrow cavity, and spreading 

 and reflexed coarsely serrate lobes villose above, often deciduous from 

 the ripe fruit; flesh thick, dark yellow, and succulent; nutlets 2 or 3, 

 full and rounded at the base, gradually narrowed to the acute apex, 

 ridged on the back with a high narrow ridge, penetrated on the inner 

 faces by deep wide cavities, dark colored, about 5 mm. long and 3-4 

 mm. wide. 



\ tree 4-7 m. high, with a slender stem covered with dark nearly 

 black scaly bark, short spreading branches forming a narrow oblong 

 or oval crown and slender nearly straight glabrous branchlets marked 

 by oblong pale lenticels, light orange color when they first appear, light 

 red-brown and lustrous during their first winter and gray tinged with 

 red the following year, and armed with numerous slender nearly straight 

 purplish spines 3-3.5 cm. long, becoming much elongated, branched 

 and dark gray on old stems and branches, or often shrubby. 



Berks county: Near Sacony Creek, in the neighborhood of Kutz- 

 town, C. L. Gruher (No. 23, type!), 1901, May and September, 1903. 

 Bucks county: Durham, C. D. Fretz (No. 154), May, 1901; Fretz and 

 Sargent, September, 1902; near Sellersvifle, C. D. Fretz (No. 158), 

 June, 1901. 

 7. Crataegus chadsfordiana n. sp. 



Leaves ovate to rhombic, acute or acuminate, cuneate or rarely 

 rounded at the entire base, coarsely doubly serrate above, with straight 

 gland-tipped teeth, and divided into 4 or 5 pairs of small acuminate 

 lateral lobes, more than half-grown when the flowers open about the 

 20th of May and then membranaceous, light yellow-green, very smooth 

 and glabrous with the exception of a few scattered white hairs above, 

 and pale or glaucous and slightly viUose in the axils of the primary veins 

 below and at maturity subcoriaceous, dark yellow-green, lustrous and 

 glabrous on the upper, light yellow-green and glabrous with the excep- 

 tion of small tufts of axillary hairs on the lower surface, 6-7 cm. long 

 and 5-6.5 cm. wide, with stout yeflow midribs, and slender veins extend- 



