CRATAEGUS MOLLIS, SCHEELE. 121 



Inflorescence. May to June. In cymes from the season's 

 growth ; flowers white, f inch broad, ill-smelling ; calyx lobes 

 5, often incised, pubescent ; petals roundish ; stamens indefi- 

 nite, styles 3-5 ; flower stems pubescent ; bracts glandular. 



Fruit. A drupe-like pome, ^-1 inch long, bright scarlet, 

 larger than the fruit of the other New England species ; 

 ripens and falls in September. 



Horticultural Value. Hardy in New England. An attract- 

 ive and useful tree in low plantations ; rarely for sale by 

 nurserymen or collectors ; propagated from the seed. 



Plate LX. Crataegus mollis. 



1. Winter buds. 



2. Branch with thorns. 



3. Flowering branch. 



4. Flower with part of perianth and stamens removed. 



5. Fruiting branch. 



Note. The New England plants here put under the head 

 of Crataegus mollis have been referred by Prof. C. S. Sargent 

 to Crataegus submollis (Bot. Gaz., XXXI, 7, 1901). The 

 new species differs from the true Crataegus mollis in its 

 smaller ovate leaves with cuneate base and more or less 

 winged leafstalk, in the smaller number of its stamens, 

 usually 10, and in its pear-shaped orange-red fruit, which 

 drops in early September. 



It is also probable that C. Arnoldiana, Sargent, new species, 

 has been collected in Massachusetts as C. mollis. It differs 

 from C. submollis " in its broader, darker green, more villose 

 leaves which are usually rounded, not cuneate at the base, in 

 its smaller flowers, subglobose, not oblong or pear-shaped, 

 crimson fruit with smaller spreading calyx lobes, borne on 

 shorter peduncles and ripening two or three weeks earlier, 

 and by its much more zigzag and more spiny branches, which 

 make this tree particularly noticeable in winter, when it may 

 readily be recognized from all other thorn trees." C. S. 

 Sargent in Bot. Gaz., XXXI, 223, 1901. 



