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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



89. Crataegus submollis Sarg. 



Leaves ovate, acute, gradually narrowed and cuneate at the nearly entire base, coarsely 

 doubly serrate above with straight glandular teeth, and divided into 3 or 4 pairs of short 

 acute lobes, half grown at the end of May or early in June when the flowers open and then 

 roughened above by short stiff pale hairs and soft-pubescent below, particularly on the 

 midrib and veins, and at maturity thin, dark yellow-green and scabrate above, pale below, 

 3'-3^' long, and 2'-2^' w y ide, with a thick yellow midrib and remote primary veins puberulous 

 on the lower side; petioles stout, nearly terete, more or less winged at apex, tomentose 

 early in the season, becoming puberulous, often bright red toward the base, l'-2' in length; 

 leaves at the end of vigorous shoots broad-ovate, cuneate, rounded, truncate, or occasionally 

 slightly cordate at base, often 4' long and 3'-3^' wide. Flowers 1' in diameter, on long 

 slender villose pedicels, in broad many-flowered tomentose corymbs; calyx- tube narrowly 

 obconic, covered with a thick coat of long matted white hairs, the lobes gradually narrowed 

 from a broad base, acute, glandular with large red stipitate glands, glabrous or villose on 



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the outer surface; stamens 10; anthers small, pale yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded at base 

 by a narrow ring of long w r hite hairs. Fruit ripening and falling during the first half of 

 September, on elongated slender slightly villose pedicels, in broad gracefully drooping 

 many-fruited clusters, obovoid, bright orange-red, lustrous, marked by large scattered 

 pale dots, puberulous toward the base, about f long; calyx much enlarged, with erect 

 coarsely glandular-serrate persistent lobes; flesh yellow, thin, subacid, dry and mealy: 

 nutlets usually 5, rounded and slightly ridged on the back, about |' in length. 



A tree, 20-25 high, with a tall trunk occasionally a foot in diameter, ascending or 

 spreading ashy gray branches forming a broad handsome head, and branchlets dark green 

 and coated with hoary tomentum when they first appear, light or dark orange-brown and 

 slightly tomentose at midsummer, becoming glabrous, lustrous, and light red-brown or 

 dark orange-brown, and armed with numerous thin straight or somewhat curved bright 

 chestnut-brown shining spines 2|'-3' in length. 



Distribution. Rich damp hillsides and the borders of woods and roads; valley of the 

 St. Lawrence River from the Isle of Orleans westward ; Hull County, Province of Quebec; 

 near Ottawa, Ontario; valley of the Penobscot River and Gerrish Island, Maine to the 

 coast of eastern Massachusetts. 



90. Crataegus Ellwangeriana Sarg. 



Leaves oval, acute, rounded or broad-cuneate at the entire base, irregularly divided 

 usually only above the middle into numerous short acute lobes, and coarsely and often 



