The Hawthorns 



acid, succulent; nutlets 3 to 5, with one low ridge on back. Pre- 

 ferred habitat, dry borders of woodlands. Distribution, near 

 Chicago. 



VII. MOLLES 



Red Haw (C mollis, Scheele.) A tree 25 to 40 feet high, 

 tall trunk; round head, branchlets stout. Thorns stout, brown. 

 1 to 2 inches long, shining. Bark grey to brown, thin, in plate- 

 like scales; branches ashy grey; twigs coated with pale hairs. 

 {Vood hard, heavy, brown. Buds small, blunt. Leaves thick, 

 firm, rough above, dark yellow-green, 3 to 4 inches long, broadly 

 ovate, acute, serrate, with 4 to 5 pairs of pointed lobes above 

 middle; base entire; lining, pale, pubescent; petioles slender, 

 hairy, stipules leaf-like, toothed on vigorous shoots. Flowers, 

 May, I inch across, in hairy, many-flowered corymbs, with 

 prominent bracts; disc, red, calyx hoary, red-tipped, stamens 20, 

 with pale yellow anthers, styles 4 to 5. Fruits, August and Sep- 

 tember, few in a cluster, drooping, scarlet, downy, globular, or 

 nearly so, f to i inch in diameter, marked with dark dots; calyx 

 lobes large, erect, falling as fruit ripens, nutlets 4 to 5, faintly 

 ridged, in thick, mealy yellow flesh. Preferred habitat, rich 

 bottom lands. Distribution, Ohio to Dakota, Nebraska and 

 Kansas. 



This red haw is the type of a large group containing a dozen 

 related species. Ample in size, fine in form and colouring, there 

 is but one fault the landscape gardener can find. The red fruits 

 fall early in the autumn. 



Scarlet Haw (C. Arnoldiana, Sarg.) A broad, open- 

 headed tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with ascending branches and 

 slender, zigzag, orange-brown branchlets, downy at first. Thorns 

 stout, shining, brown, 2 to 3 inches long. Bark dark grey, with 

 thick scales on trunk; branches pale grey, smooth. Leaves 

 broadly ovate, with shallow lobes, sharply serrate almost to 

 petiole; covered at first with matted white hairs, at maturity 

 lustrous, dark green above, paler beneath and smooth except on 

 slender veins, 2 to 3 inches long and the same broad; petioles f 

 to i^ inches long. Flowers, May, in broad, compound corymbs; 

 stems velvety; corolla f inch across; stamens 10, anthers pale 

 yellow, large; styles 3 to 4, densely tufted. Fruit, August, 

 September, soon falling, few in a cluster, erect, nearly globular. 



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