An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 APPLE FAMILY. 42. Crataegus macrosperma Ashe. \'ariable Thorn C. macrosperma Ashe, Journ. E. Mitch. Soc. 16: 73. 1900. JMesfilus cordala Mill. Diet. Ed. 8, n. 4. 1768: Fig. PI. 119. pi. 179. 1760. Not Crataegus cordala Ait. A shrub or small tree, sometitnes 25° high, with as- cending branches and numerous curs-ed sp
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 APPLE FAMILY. 42. Crataegus macrosperma Ashe. \'ariable Thorn C. macrosperma Ashe, Journ. E. Mitch. Soc. 16: 73. 1900. JMesfilus cordala Mill. Diet. Ed. 8, n. 4. 1768: Fig. PI. 119. pi. 179. 1760. Not Crataegus cordala Ait. A shrub or small tree, sometitnes 25° high, with as- cending branches and numerous curs-ed spines }'-2i' long. Leaves elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, acute at the apex, rounded, truncate or rarely cordate at the base, serrate or doubly serrate, i'-2\' long, V-2\' wide, membranous, slightly villous, becoming glabrate, dark yellow-green above; petioles slender, *'-i' long; corymbs glabrous or slightly villous; flowers 7'-io' broad; sta- mens 5-20, usually 5-10; styles and nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit ellipsoid or pyriform, scarlet to crimson, often glaucous, 5'-9' thick, its flesh soft at maturity; calyx- lobes erect or spreading. N'ova Scotia and Maine to southeastern Minnesota. North Carolina and Tennessee. May; fruit ripe August-Septem- ber. More than fifty different names have heen given to what is essentially this species. Figured in our first edition as C. coccin,
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