78 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



SOAELET HAW. BED HAW. WHITE THOEN. 



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. 



0. viridis, Linnajus, Spec. 1 ed. 476. Willdenow, Spec, ii, 1001. Persoon, Syn. il, 36. Elliott, Sk. i, 551. De CaudoUe, Prodr. 

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

 Bot. 218.- Beck, Bot. 305. Darby, Bot. S. States, 305. Wood, CI. Book, 332 ; Bot. & Fl. 111. 



t Phcenopyrum viride, E<Bmer, Syn. Mon. iii, 156. 



Mespilus viridis, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 149. 



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



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



C. populifolia, Elliott, 8k. i, 553 [not Walter]. Nuttall, Genera, i, 305. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. lUt Beck, Bot. 305. Eaton* 

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



Mespilus populifolia, Lamarck, Diet. Iv, 447. 



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



0. COCCtJiea, var. <J(pJca, Eegel in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg,!, 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. 



128. Crataegus subvillosa, Schrader, 



Ind. Sem. Hort. Goett.- Torrey in Pacific E. R. Eep. iv, 35. Eidgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 66. 



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

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



Fhcenopyrum subvillosum, Etemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 154. 



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



C. sanguinea, var. villosa, Euprecht & Maximowioz, Prim. Fl. Amurensis, 101. 



G. Texaria, Buckley in Proc. Philadelphia Acad. 1861, 454 (see Gray in same, 1862, 163). Toting, FL Texas, 258. 



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

 Trees, 14. 



Mespilus tiliqfolia, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 151. 



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SOAELET HAW. 



Eastern Massachusetts (i)ossibly 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 lieiivy, 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. 



