MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 51 
Crataegus brachypoda.—A tree 12-20 feet high. On grav- 
elly banks of streams, Carter and Ripley Counties, Missouri. 
Crataegus sicca-——A shrub 3-6 feet high. On dry limestone 
hills, Franklin County, Missouri. 
MOLLES GROUP 
Crataegus mollis (red haw).—A tree 30-40 feet high. 
Branches smooth, ashy gray, heavy, wide-spreading, forming 
a broad, round-topped head; branchlets stout, covered at 
first with a thick coat of white hairs, becoming smooth in the 
second year, armed with occasional straight, thick, chestnut- 
brown, lustrous spines. Leaves broad-ovate, acute, usually 
cordate or rounded at the wide base, serrate and more or less 
deeply divided into 4 or 5 pairs of lobes, about half grown 
when the flowers open in early May, firm in texture at ma- 
turity, dark yellow-green on the upper surface, paler beneath. 
Flowers white, in broad, many-flowered corymbs; stamens 20; 
anthers light yellow. Fruit large, red, ripening in August 
and dropping as soon as ripe. Habitat: in low rich soil, 
northern and eastern Missouri, Ontario to South Dakota, 
Nebraska, Kansas, and ‘Tennessee. 
Crataegus dasyphylla.—A tree 15-20 feet high. In rich 
moist soil, Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus declivitatis—A shrub 9-15 feet high. On steep 
bluffs along the Mississippi River, South St. Louis, Missouri. 
Crataegus macrophylla.—A tree 20-25 feet high. On river 
bottoms, St. Louis County, Missouri. 
Crataegus lasiantha.—A tree 20-25 feet high. In low moist 
soil, Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus umbrosa.—A tree 25-30 feet high. On river 
bottoms, St. Louis County, Missouri. 
Crataegus Treleasei.—A tree 20-25 feet high. In moist soil 
on banks of streams, St. Francois County, Missouri. 
Crataegus dumetosa.—A shrub 6-9 feet high. In thickets 
on fertile uplands, Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus Kelloggi.—A tree 20-25 feet high. On river 
banks, St. Louis County, Missouri. 
Crataegus lanuginosa.—A tree 20-25 feet high. In low 
rich soil, Jasper County, Missouri. 
Crataegus dispessa.—A tree 15-20 feet high. Along streams, 
Shannon County, Missouri. 
