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Distribution. Connecticut to Ontario, Illinois, Delaware and 

 Pennsylvania. 



A small tree sometimes 8 m. (25 feet) high, with ascending and 

 spreading branches and a broad, round-topped crown. 



Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Floyd (Beam) ; 

 Knox (Deam); Noble (VanGorder); Steuben (Beam); White (Beam). 



Horticultural Uses. This fine tree has been in the gardener's hands 

 several centuries. There are specimens in the Kew Gardens, England, 

 more than two hundred years old. 



20a. Crataegus coccinea var. Ellwangeriana, n. nom. (Cra- 

 taegus pedicillata var. Ellwangeriana (Sargent) Eggleston). Corymbs 

 densely villous ; fruit slightly villous. 



Distribution. Known in Indiana from Beam's specimen No. 

 27355 from Warren County. 



21. Crataegus mollis (Torrey and Gray) Scheele. RED-FRUITED 

 01 BOWNY THORN. REDRAW. Plate 97. Bark grayish-brown, fissured 

 and scaly; spines curved, 3-5 cm. (1-2 inches) long; leaves broadly 

 ovate, acute at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base, serrate or twice 

 serrate with narrow acute lobes, 4-13 cm. (1^-5 inches,) long, 4-10 cm. 

 (1^-4 inches) wide, slightly rugose, densely tomentose beneath, to- 

 mentose above, becoming scabrous, membranaceous ; petioles 2-4 cm. 

 04-1^ inches) long, tomentose; corymbs tomentose, many- flowered; 

 flowers appear in May, about 2.5 cm. (1 inch) broad; stamens about 20; 

 anthers light yellow; styles and nutlets 4 or 5; fruit ripens in September, 

 short-ellipsoidal to subglobose, scarlet, 1.5-2.5 cm. (^-1 inch) thick, 

 flesh thick, yellow, edible; calyx lobes glandular-serrate, swollen, erect 

 or spreading, deciduous. 



Distribution. Southern Ontario to South Bakota, south to central 

 Tennessee and Arkansas. This thorn is well distributed over Indiana. 



A small tree often 13 m. (40 feet) high, with ascending and spreading 

 branches, forming a broad, round-topped crown. 



Specimens have been examined from the following counties: Allen 

 (Beam) ; Cass (Mrs. Ida Jackson) ; Bearborn (Beam) ; Becatur (Beam) ; 

 Belaware (Beam) ; Floyd (Beam) ; Gibson (Schneck), (Beam) ; Hancock 

 (Beam); Hendricks (Beam); Henry (Beam); Jackson (Beam); Knox 

 (Schneck), (Beam); Madison (Beam); Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Beam); 

 Montgomery (Grimes); Posey (Beam); Putnam (Grimes); Shelby 

 (Beam); Sullivan (Beam); Vermillion (Beam); Wells (Beam); Whit- 

 ley (Beam). 



