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1901] : NORTH AMERICAN TREES 7 
from the fruit ; stamens ten; filaments slender, elongated ; anthers 
small, rose color; styles two or three. Fruit globose, pendent on 
the elongated peduncles, bright scarlet, ¥ in. in diameter, with 
thin dry yellow flesh; nutlets usually two or three, broad and 
thick, full and ridged on the back, about ¥ in. long. 
‘A tree occasionally 20 feet in height, with a trunk 3 to 7 in. in 
diameter covered with dark brown scaly bark and frequently 
armed with long slender much-branched ashy gray spines, wide- 
spreading branches forming a broad round-topped head, slender 
glabrous branchlets marked with white lenticels, at first green, 
becoming light chestnut-brown and lustrous during their first 
summer, and furnished with slender straight or slightly recurved 
chestnut-brown spines 2 to 2% in. long. Flowers from the 
middle to the end of May. Fruit ripens the first of October and 
falls in November. 
Open woods near the banks of small streams in the prairie 
region of Stark and Peoria counties, Illinois, where it was dis- 
covered by Mr. Virginius H. Chase in May 1898. Rare and 
local. Trees which appear to be of the same species were found 
by Mr. B. F. Bush near Swan, Taney county, Missouri, in Octo- 
ber 1889; and later by Professor William Trelease and myself. 
Crataegus submollis, n. sp. (Crataegus tomentosa Emerson, 
Trees Mass. 435. 1846 [not Linnaeus]; ed. 2, 494, p/.—. 1875.— 
Crataegus coccinea mollis Brunet, Cat. Vég. Lig. Can. 25. 1867 
[in part, not Torrey & Gray]; Watson & Coulter, Gray’s Man. 
ed. 6. 165. 1890 [in part ].—Crataegus subvillosa Macoun, Cat. 
Can. Pl. 1:147. 1888 [in part, not Torrey |.— Crataegus mollis 
Sargent, Silva N. Am. 4:99. p/. 782. 1892 [in part, not Scheele}; 
Koehne, Herb. Dendr. 232.— Crataegus coccinea subvillosa Lange, 
Rev. Spec. Gen. Crataegi 31. fig. —).—Leaves ovate, acute, 
cuneate at the base, sharply serrate with gland-tipped teeth, 
slightly divided above the middle into three or four pairs of 
acute lobes, membranaceous, pale yellow-green and roughened 
on the upper surface with short closely appressed rigid hairs, 
paler and at first coated below with dense hoary tomentum, at 
maturity puberulous only on the prominent midribs and remote 
