REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1903 45 
calyx tube glabrous, its lobes glabrous, laciniate serrate above the 
middle, stamens 10, anthers pink or pinkish purple, filaments 
usually white; fruit erect on short slightly villose peduncles, sub- 
globose or short oblong, glabrous, yellowish green when ripe, the 
calyx lobes mostly deciduous, nutlets 3-4. 
Shaly soil. Lansingburg. Flowers the last week in May or the 
first week in June, fruit ripens early in October and soon falls. 
The species is closely related to C. modesta from which it 
may be separated by its mostly broader leaves, its less hairy 
inflorescence, pink or pinkish purple anthers and glabrous yellow- 
ish green fruit. In this as in the two preceding species the fruit 
is crowned by a prominent rim which surrounds the calyx cup. 
The spines are slender, straight or slightly curved and 1.2-2.5 
inches long. 
MOLLES 
Fruit, large, bright red and shining when ripe, often hairy, 
specially when young; inflorescence villose tomentose; leaves large, 
broad, softly hairy when young. 
The three species here recorded are trees or large shrubs with 
edible fruit. 
Anthers pale yellow or whitish - C. champlainensis 
Anthers pink, dark red or purple i 
1 Leaves often convex, calyx lobes hairy on the 
inner surface Ca prany Vex 
1 Leaves plane, calyx lobes hairy on both surfaces C. exclusa 
Crataegus champlainensis Sarg: 
Champlain thorn 
Rhodora, 3:20. Silva N. A, 13:105, t.669. N. Y¥. State Mus. 
55th An, Rep’t, p.944. 
Tree or large shrub 10-20 feet tall with widely spreading 
branches; leaves ovate or broadly ovate, 2-2.5 inches long, 1.5-2 
broad at flowering time, larger when mature and on vigorous 
young shoots, acute at the apex, rounded, truncate, broadly 
cuneate or slightly cordate at the base, slightly and sharply lobed, 
coarsely and sharply serrate, when young pubescent above with 
whitish appressed hairs, pubescent beneath and villose on the 
