Large-Fruited Thorn 



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about 12 mm. wide, in many-flowered hairy corymbs; calyx-tube smooth near the 

 lobes; lobes smooth outside, hair}' within, hnear, long-pointed; stamens lo to 20; 

 anthers dark rose; styles 2 to 4. The fruit ripens early in October; it is oblong- 

 pear-shaped, dull brick-red, about 15 mm. long and about 8 mm. thick, calyx-lobes 

 spreading; the flesh is hard, greenish yellow; it contains 2 to 4 nutlets, commonly 

 3 or 4, from 7 to 10 mm. long, the nest of nutlets 6 to 9 mm. thick; the nutlets are 

 strongly ridged on the back. 



8. LARGE-FRUITED THORN — Cratsegus punctata Jacquin 



This species occurs from the Falls of Montmorency, Quebec, southward, 

 through western New England and along the Appalachian Mountains to northern 

 Georgia and westward to southeastern ]\Iinnesota, Iowa, and northern Ilhnois. 

 It ascends to 500 meters in Vermont and about 1800 meters in North Carohna 

 and Tennessee. It is a tree often 9 meters high, with branches usually horizontal, 



Fig. 397. — Large-fruited Thorn, Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y. City. 



forming in the older trees a conspicuously flat-topped head; the bark is grayish 

 brown, scaly; the twigs are orange-brown, hain.-, becoming gray and smooth, and 

 are armed with straight orange-brown to light gray spines from 2 to 5 cm. long. 

 The leaves are obovate, pointed or rounded at the apex, doubly toothed above, 

 from 2 to 8 cm. long, i to 5 cm. broad, hairy beneath, especially along the veins, 



