78 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



SCAELET HAW. EED HAW. WHITE THORN. 



West coast of Newfoundland, west along the valley of the Saint Lawrence river and the northern shores of the 

 great lakes to Manitoba, south through the Atlantic forests to northern Florida and eastern Texas. 



A small tree, sometimes 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 meter in diameter; open upland woods or along 

 streams and borders of prairies ; very common at the north, rare at the south ; running into many forms, varying 

 in the size and shape of the leaves, size of the fruit, etc. The best marked are 



var. viridis, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 465. Torrey in Nicollet's Rep. 149. 



C. viridis, Linnaeus, Spec. 1 ed. 476. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 1001. Persoon, Syn. ii, 36. Elliott, Sk. i, 551. De Caudolle, Prodr. 

 ii, 630. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 601. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 112. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica,2 ed. 293. Eaton & Wright^ 

 Bot. 212. Beck, Bot. 305. Darby, Bot. S. States, 305. Wood, Cl. Book, 332; Bot. & Fl. 111. 



f Phcenopyrum Viride, Kramer, Syn. Mon. iii, 156. 



Mespilus viridis, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 149. 



C. glandulosa, var. rotundifolia, Eegel in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg, i, 120. 



var. populifolia, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 465. 



C. populifolia, Elliott, Sk. i, 553 [not Walter]. Nuttall, Genera, i, 305. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 112 Beck, Bot. 305. Eaton & 

 Wright, Bot. 212. Darby, Bot. S. States, 305. 



Mespilus populifolia, Lamarck, Diet, iv, 447. 



Phcenopyrum populifolium, Eoeraer, Syn. Mon. iii, 156. 



0. COCdinea, var. typica, Eegel in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg, i, 121. 



var. oligandra, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 465. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; medullary rays thin, very obscure; color, brown tinged with red,, 

 the sap-wood a little lighter; specific gravity, 0.8618; ash, 0.38. k 



128. Crataegus subvillosa, Schrader, 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Goett. Torrey in Pacific E. E. Eep. iv, 35. Ridgway in Proc. TI. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 66. 



C. coccinea, var. mollis, Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 465. Gray in Jour. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vi, 186. Parry ift 

 Owen's Eep. 612. Eegel in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg, i, 121. 



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Pheenopyrum subvillosum, Roemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 154. 



C. mollis, Scheele in Linnaea, xxi, 569; Eoemer, Texas, Appx. 473. Walpers, Ann. ii,523. 



G. sanguinea, var. mllosa, Euprecht & Maximowicz, Prim. Fl. Amurensis, 101. 



C. Texana, Buckley in Proo. Philadelphia Acad. 1861, 454 (see Gray in same, 1862, 163). Yonng, Fl. Texas, 258. 



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C. tomentosa, var. mollis, Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 160. Wood, Cl. Book, 330 ; Bot. & Fl. 121. Vasey, Cat. Forest 

 Trees, 14. 



Mespilus tilicefolia, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 151. 



SCAELET HAW. 



Eastern Massachusetts (possibly introduced) ; central Michigan to eastern Nebraska, south to middle Tennessee, 

 and southwest through Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian territory, and Texas to the valley of the San Antonio river. 



A small tree, 7 to 9 meters in height, with a trunk rarely 0.45 meter in diameter; rich woods and along borders 

 of streams and prairies. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays numerous, very obscure ; color, light 

 brown or light red, the sap-wood lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7953 ; ash, 0.69. 



The large red fruit often downy, edible, and of agreeable flavor. 



