Large-Fruited Thorn 



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about 12 mm. wide, in many-flowered hairy corymbs; calyx-tube smooth near the 

 lobes; lobes smooth outside, hairy within, hnear, long-pointed; stamens lo to 20; 

 anthers dark rose; styles 2 to 4. The fruit ripens early in October; it is oblong- 

 pear-shaped, dull brick- red, about 15 mm. long and about 8 mm. thick, calyx-lobes 

 spreading; the flesh is hard, greenish yellow; it contains 2 to 4 nutlets, commonly 

 3 or 4, from 7 to 10 mm. long, the nest of nutlets 6 to 9 mm. thick; the nutlets are 

 strongly ridged on the back. 



8. LARGE-FRUITED THORN Crataegus punctata Jacquin 



This species occurs from the Falls of Montmorency, Quebec, southward, 

 through western New England and along the Appalachian iMountains to northern 

 Georgia and westward to southeastern Minnesota, Iowa, and northern Illinois. 

 It ascends to 500 meters in Vermont and about 1800 meters in North Carolina 

 and Tennessee. It is a tree often 9 meters high, with branches usually horizontal. 



Fig. 397. Large-fruited Thorn, Van Cortlandt Park. N. Y. City. 



forming in the older trees a conspicuously flat-topped head ; the bark is grayish 

 brown, scaly; the twigs are orange-brown, hair}', becoming gray and smooth, and 

 are armed with straight orange-brown to light gray s])incs from 2 to 5 cm. long. 

 The leaves are obovate, pointed or rounded at the apex, doubly toothed above, 

 from 2 to 8 cm. long, i to 5 cm. broad, hair}- beneath, especially along the veins, 



