SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. Oy 
ROSACEA. 
Crategus coccinea, var. macracantha, is common in eastern Massachusetts, where it grows with 
Crategus coccinea ; it occurs on the Maine coast, in northern New Hampshire and Vermont, and in 
the province of Quebec, and ranges westward through Winnipeg. It occurs in Missouri and is not 
rare on the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Colorado and of New Mexico, in eastern Oregon, and on 
the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington.! 
A shrubby form of the southern states with small thin glabrous deltoid-ovate leaves, usually wedge- 
shaped or sometimes cordate at the base, and borne on slender petioles, is distinguished as Crategus 
coccinea, var. populifolia? 
Tt produces small flowers in narrow few-flowered corymbs, and small fruit. 
Crategus coccinea was probably introduced into English gardens in the seventeenth century, and 
the earliest descriptions of it were drawn up from cultivated plants. 
In cultivation it is a less desirable plant than the related Crategus mollis, and than several other 
North American species, and it is now rarely found in gardens. 
1 The synonymy of this variety, which is possibly the Crataegus 
glandulosa of Moench, is much involved. If it is the Crataegus glan- 
dulosa of this author, and is regarded as a variety of Crategus 
But the identity of 
Moench’s plant is so doubtful that it is better to pass over this 
coccinea, its name would be var. glandulosa. 
name and take up the much later one of Loddiges and Loudon, 
although it is in part the Crategus glandulosa of Willdenow, whose 
name, however, was published later than the Crategus glandulosa 
of Aiton, which is the Crategus flava of this author. The figure in 
Watson’s Dendrologia Britannica was made from this variety, which 
is admirably portrayed by Schmidt. 
2 Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. Am. i. 465. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. 
Am. 10th Census U. S. ix. 78. 
Crategus populifolia, Elliott, Sk. i. 553 (not Walter). — Nut- 
tall, Gen.i. 305. 
Mespilus populifolia, Poiret, Lam. Dict. iv. 447. 
Phenopyrum populifolium, Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. iii. 153. 
Crateegus coccinea, var. typica, Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. i. 121. 
8 The confusion in the pre-Linnzan descriptions of the American 
Hawthorns makes it impossible in some cases to determine which 
species different authors intended to describe ; but it is apparent that 
some of the descriptions which have usually been thought to refer 
to Crategus coccinea relate rather to Crategus mollis, which was well 
figured by Plukenet. 
? Mespilus Virginiana grossularie foliis, fructu rubro minore, Alm. 
Bot. 249 (excl. syn. Banister). 
Crategus foliis ovatis repando-angulatis serratis, Linneus, Hort. 
Clif. 187 ; Hort. Ups. 126. — Clayton, Fl. Virgin. 54. — Royen, Fl. 
Leyd. Prodr. 272. 
