ROSACEA. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 83 
CRATAiGUS MOLLIS. 
Red Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers light yellow. Leaves broadly ovate, thick and firm. 
Cratzgus mollis, Scheele, Linnwa, xxi. 569 (1848).— Cratezgus subvillosa ? Torrey, Pacific R. R. Rep. iv. 86 
Walpers, Ann. ii. 523. — Sargent, Silva N. Am. iv. 99 (1857). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 66. — 
(in part), t. 182, f. 4. — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. ii. Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. 8. ix. 78 
436. — Koehne, Deutsche Dendr. 232 (in part). — Brit- (in part). 
ton, Man. 521 (in part). — Gattinger, F7. Tennessee, 97. Cratazegus tomentosa, var. mollis, Gray, Man. ed. 5, 160 
Cratezegus coccinea «, ? mollis, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. Am. (in part) (1867). 
i. 465 (in part) (1838).— Watson & Coulter, Gray’s 
Man. ed. 6, 165 (in part). 
A tree, sometimes forty feet in height, with a tall trunk often eighteen inches in diameter, and 
stout wide-spreading smooth ashy gray branches forming a broad round-topped and often symmetrical 
head. The bark of the trunk is thin and broken into small closely appressed scales usually dark brown 
near the base of old trees and light gray on young stems. The branchlets are stout, slightly zigzag, 
marked by numerous small pale lenticels, and unarmed or armed with occasional straight thick bright 
chestnut-brown shining spines from one to two inches in length; when they first appear they are 
covered with a thick coat of long white matted hairs, and during their first summer they are orange- 
brown or reddish brown and villose, becoming glabrous and lustrous in their second year, and ultimately 
dark gray-brown. The leaves are broadly ovate, acute, usually cordate or rounded at the broad base, 
coarsely and generally doubly serrate, with straight glandular teeth, and more or less deeply divided 
into four or five pairs of acute lateral lobes; when they unfold the upper surface is covered with short 
pale hairs and the lower surface is thickly clothed with hoary tomentum ; and about half grown when 
the flowers open early in May, they are then membranaceous, light yellow-green, and still hairy above 
and pubescent or tomentose below ; in the autumn they are usually from three to four inches long and 
broad, thick and firm in texture, dark yellow-green and slightly rugose on the upper surface, and 
paler and pubescent or puberulous on the lower surface along the stout midribs and four or five pairs 
of slender primary veins which extend to the points of the lobes; they are borne on stout nearly 
terete petioles tomentose at first, ultimately pubescent or nearly glabrous, often slightly glandular, with 
small dark caducous glands, and from an inch to an inch and a quarter in length. The stipules 
are lanceolate, acuminate, straight or falcate, coarsely serrate, and frequently half an inch in length. 
On vigorous shoots the leaves are more deeply lobed, with a deeper basal sinus than the leaves of 
fertile branchlets, and frequently five or six inches long and broad, with foliaceous lunate coarsely 
serrate stipules sometimes an inch in length. The flowers are an inch in diameter and are borne in 
broad thick-branched compound many-flowered tomentose corymbs, with conspicuous oblong-obovate 
acuminate glandular-serrate slightly villose bracts and _bractlets which are at first pale green, and turn 
red or brown in fading. The calyx-tube is narrowly obconic and covered with hoary tomentum, and 
the lobes are narrow, acuminate, coarsely glandular-serrate, with bright red glands, villose on the outer 
surface, tomentose on the inner surface, and reflexed after the petals fall. There are twenty stamens 
with large light yellow anthers, and four or usually five styles surrounded at the base by a broad 
ring of hoary tomentum. The fruit ripens late in August and in September, and is borne on stout 
pedicels, in drooping few-fruited villose clusters ; it is short-oblong or subglobose, full and rounded at 
the ends, more or less pubescent, scarlet, marked by occasional large pale dots, from three quarters 
