106 TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES 
or lanceolate, or oblong-obovate, mostly acute at both ends, on 
slender petioles; acutely serrate, often somewhat lobed and often 
downy in the axils. Flowers numerous, in large clusters. Fruit 
bright red, or,orange, ovoid, small, 14 in. broad. A small tree, 20 té 
30 ft. high, with few large thorns or without thorns. Southern Mli- 
nois and Missouri, along the Mississippi and in the Southern States. 
8. Crateegus tomentosa, L. (BLack 
oR PEAR HawTHorn.) Leaves downy- 
pubescent on the lower side (at least 
when young), thickish, rather large, oval 
or ovate-oblong, sharply toothed and 
often cut-lobed below, abruptly nar- 
rowed into a margined petiole, the upper 
surface impressed along the main veins 
or ribs. Branches gray. Flowers ill- 
scented, many inacorymb. Fruit 14 in. 
long, obovate to globose, dullred. Shrub 
or tree, 10 to 30 ft. high, wild in western 
C. tomentdsa. New York, west and south. 
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.9. Crategus punctata. (DoTTED-FRUITED 
HawtTHorn.) Leaves rather small, mostly 
wedge-obovate, attenuate and entire below, 
unequally toothed above, rarely lobed, villous- 
pubescent, becoming smooth but dull, the 
veins prominent beneath andimpressed above. 1 
Fruit globose, large, 1 in. broad, red to bright z 
yellow; peduncles not glandular. Shrub to C.punctata. 
tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, with horizontal branches; Canada to Georgia. 
10. Crat@gus flava, Ait. (YELLOW oR 
Summer Haw.) Leaves small, wedge-obo- 
vate, unequally toothed and cut above the 
middle; on short petioles; the teeth, stipules 
and petioles glandular. Flowers mostly sol- 
itary, white, large (3; in). May. Fruit usu- 
ally pear-shaped, quite large (34 in. long), 
yellow or greenish-yellow, sometimes tinged 
or spotted with red, pleasant-flavored. Ripe 
in autumn. A low spreading tree, 15 to 20 ft. 
high. Virginia, south and west, in sandy soil. 
C. fava. Var. pubescens is downy- or villous-pubes- 
cent when young, and has thicker leaves and larger and redder fruit. 
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