102 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEA 
he nutlets, which are usually five in number, are rounded and slightly 
thin, subacid, dry, and mealy. T 
ridged on the back, and about a third of an inch in length. 
Crategus submollis inhabits rich damp hillsides and the borders of woods and roads, and is dis- 
tributed from the valley of the St. Lawrence River, where it has been found near Montreal and the city 
cot River and Gerrish Island, Maine, and to eastern Massachusetts, 
of Quebec, to the valley of the Penobs 
e neighborhood of the coast, it is not common.! 
where, although widely scattered in th 
cuneate leaves, in its ten not twenty stamens, in its much less down 
smaller pear-shaped fruits drooping on slender pedicels, and if 
the color of its branchlets. Figure 4 on plate elxxxii. represents 
one of the subglobose fruits of Crataegus mollis. 
1 It was this species which appears as Crategus mollis on plate 
elxxxii. in the fourth volume of this work, for it was then supposed 
that the Massachusetts tree was identical with the Crategus mollis 
of the Mississippi basin. From that species it is now known to dif- 
fer in its smaller and less tomentose more deeply lobed and usually 
