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Crataegus rotundifolia (Ehrh.) Borck. Glandular Thorn. (Fig. 1999.) 



Mespilus rotundifolia Ehrh. Beitr. 3: 20. 1788. 

 Crataegus glandulosa Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 1002. 1800. Not 



Soland. 1789. 



C. coccinea var. oligandra T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 465. 1840. 

 C. rotundifolia Borck. in Roem. Arch, i: Part 3, 87. 1798. 



A shrub, similar to the preceding species, the spines 

 slender. Leaves mostly smaller, slender-petioled, 

 thin, becoming firm, dull, glabrous or very nearly so, 

 oval, ovate, obovate, or some of them nearly orbicular, 

 incised-serrate with gland-tipped teeth, or sometimes 

 lobed, acute at the apex, most of them narrowed or 

 cuneate at the base, the veins not very conspicuous; 

 bractlets and calyx-lobes very glandular; flowers nu- 

 merous, 8 // -i2 // broad; fruit oval or obovoid, red, 4"- 

 8" long. 



Connecticut to Indiana, Florida and Alabama. Ascends 

 to 3500 ft. in Virginia. Blooms later than C. coccinea where 

 the two grow together. April-June. 



10. Crataegus macracantha Lodd. 

 L/ong-spined Thorn. (Fig. 2000. ) 



Crataegus macracantha Lodd. ; Loudon, Arb. Brit. 



Ed. 2, 2: 819. 1854. 

 Crataegus coccinea var. macracantha Dudley, Bull. 



Cornell. Univ. 2: 33. 1886. 



A shrub or small tree, the branches sometimes 

 straggling, the bright brown thorns 2 / ~5 / long. 

 Leaves dark green, dull, rather stout-petioled, 

 iX / ~3/^ / l n K. glabrous above, usually with a 

 few hairs on the prominent veins beneath, 

 sharply and often doubly serrate with gland- 

 tipped teeth, acute or obtuse at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or cuneate at the base; pedicels often 

 pubescent; calyx and bractlets glandular; flow- 

 ers numerous, 6 // -8 // broad; fruit globose or 

 oval, 3 x/ -5 //r in diameter. 



Quebec to Dakota, south to Virginia and Mis- 

 souri. May-June. 



ii. Crataegus mollis (T. & G.) Scheele. Red-fruited Thorn. (Fig. 2001.) 



Crataegus coccinea var. mollis T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 



465. 1840. 

 Crataegus subvillosa T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 465. As 



synonym. 1840. 



Crataegus mollis Scheele, Linnaea, 21: 569. 1848. 

 Crataegus tomentosa var. mollis A.. Gray, Man. Ed. 



5, 160. 1867. 



Similar to Crataegus coccinea, growing to 

 about the same height. Leaves generally 

 broadly ovate, truncate at the base, large 

 (sometimes 5' long), incised and sharply ser- 

 rate with gland-tipped teeth, roughish above, 

 very pubescent beneath, especially when young; 

 corymbs many-flowered; twigs, petioles and 

 calyx densely pubescent; calyx-lobes usually 

 incised and glandular; flowers 8 // -i2 // broad; 

 fruit bright red, 7 // -i2 // in diameter, hairy. 



Thickets, Quebec to Michigan, Nebraska and 

 Missouri, south to Pennsylvania, Louisiana and 

 Texas. Wood hard, light reddish-brown; weight 

 per cubic foot 50 Ibs. April-May. 



