118 TREES OF NKW ENGLAND. 



Thorns uumerous, straight. Long (2 I inches), slender; 

 Leaves thick, smooth, dark green, shining on the upper Bur- 

 face, pale beneath, turning dark orange red in autumn ; out- 

 line obovate-oblanceolate, serrate above, entire or uearly so 

 near base; apex acute or rounded; base decidedly wedge- 

 shaped ; leafstalks short. 



Fruit globose or very slightly pear-shaped, remaining on 

 the tree throughout the winter. 



Hardy throughout southern New England; used frequently 

 for a hedge plant. 



Crataegus punctata, Jacq. 



Thickets, hillsides, borders of forests. 



(Quebec and Ontario. 



Small tree, common in Vermont (Brainerd) and occasional 

 in the other New England states. 



South to Georgia. 



Thorns 1-2 inches long, sometimes branched ; leaves 1-2^ 

 inches long, smooth on the upper surface, finally smooth and 

 dull beneath ; outline obovate, toothed or slightly lobed above, 

 entire or nearly so beneath, short-pointed or somewhat obtuse 

 at the apex, wedge-shaped at base ; leafstalk slender, 1-2 

 inches long ; calyx lobes linear, entire ; fruit large, red or 

 yellow. 



Crataegus coccinea, L. 



In view of the fact of great variation in the bark, leaves, 

 inflorescence, and fruit of plants that have all passed in this 

 country as C. coccinea, and in view of the further uncertainty 

 as to the plant on which the species was originally founded, 

 it seems "best to consider the specimen in the Linnaean 

 herbarium as the type of C. coccinea which can be described 

 as follows : 



" Leaves elliptical or on vigorous shoots mostly semiorbicular, 

 acute or acuminate, divided above the middle into numerous 

 acute coarsely glandular-serrate lobes, cuneate and finely glandu- 

 lar-serrate below the middle and often quite entire toward the 



