TREES AND SHRUBS. 



CKATJEGUS KEN^EDYI, Sarg. 



(Coccineae.) 



Crataegus Kennedyi, n. sp. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, gradually or abruptly narrowed to the cuneate entire base, sharply 

 doubly serrate above, with straight glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into four or five 

 pairs of slender acuminate spreading lobes ; more than half grown when the flowers open and 

 then thin, light yellow-green and setose above and pale and glabrous below, and at maturity thin, 

 glabrous, dark green and lustrous on the upper surface, light yellow-green on the lower surface, 

 from 5 to 7 centimetres long and from 4 to 5.6 centimetres wide, with slender midribs, and thin 

 primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes ; petioles slender, slightly wing- 

 margined at the apex, glabrous, glandular, with minute sometimes persistent glands, from 2 to 3.5 

 centimetres in length. Flowers on long slender slightly villose pedicels, in mostly five to seven- 

 flowered lax corymbs, the lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves ; calyx-tube narrowly 

 obconic, glabrous, the lobes slender, elongated, acuminate, minutely glandular-serrate, glabrous 

 on the outer surface, slightly villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis ; stamens ten ; 

 anthers rose purple ; styles three or four. Fruit on long slender glabrous pedicels, in few-fruited 

 drooping clusters, slender-obovate, gradually narrowed to the base, rounded and slightly narrowed 

 at the apex, crimson, lustrous, from 1.1 to 1.2 centimetres long and from 7 to 8 millimetres in 

 diameter ; calyx prominent, with a wide shallow cavity, and spreading often incurved lobes, their 

 tips generally deciduous from the ripe fruit; flesh thin, yellow, dry, and mealy; nutlets three or 

 four, acute at the rounded base, narrowed and acute at the apex, ridged on the back, with a 

 broad slightly grooved ridge, from 6 to 7 millimetres long and from 4 to 5 millimetres wide. 



A broad rounded-topped shrub, from 4 to 5 metres high, with numerous large stems spreading 

 into thickets, and stout glabrous branchlets, light orange color when they first appear, becoming 

 light chestnut-brown, very lustrous and marked by pale lenticels in their first season and dull 

 gray-brown the following year, and armed with stout nearly straight light chestnut-brown ulti- 

 mately dull gray spines from 2.5 to 5 centimetres long. Flowers appear about the middle of 

 June. Fruit ripens at the end of August or early in September. 



Rocky summit of Willoughby Mountain, Orleans County, Vermont, at an altitude of about 850 

 metres, E. Faxon, July 23, 1886, J. G. Jack, August 23, 1901, W. W. Eggleston, September 

 13, 1903, G. G. Kennedy, June 18, 1906. 



This interesting species is named for Dr. George G. Kennedy, a student of the New England flora and the author 

 of the Flora of Willoughby. Of the small group of the Coccinece with ten stamens and rose-colored anthers it is most 

 closely related to Crataegus Fernaldi, Sargent, of the Aroostook valley in Maine, which differs from it in its more 

 deeply lobed leaves, villose below especially while young, more hairy pedicels, tomentose calyx-tubes, more broadly 

 obovate fruit, obtuse nutlets, and larger and stouter spines. 



C. S. S. 



