. 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. Botany. APPLE 66. Crataegus submollis Sargent. Emerson's Thorn. Fig. 2400. C. lomenlosa Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. 430. 1846. Not L. C. submollis Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31: 7. 1901. A tree, sometimes 25° high, with spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical crown, the spines numerous, 1-3'long. Leaves ovate, i}'-4J' long, il'-sV wide, acute at the apex, broadly c
. 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. Botany. APPLE 66. Crataegus submollis Sargent. Emerson's Thorn. Fig. 2400. C. lomenlosa Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. 430. 1846. Not L. C. submollis Sarg. Bot. Gaz. 31: 7. 1901. A tree, sometimes 25° high, with spreading branches forming a broad symmetrical crown, the spines numerous, 1-3'long. Leaves ovate, i}'-4J' long, il'-sV wide, acute at the apex, broadly cuneate at base, serrate or doubly serrate and acutely lobed, membranous, yellow-green, tomentose, becoming scabrate; corymbs many-flowered, tomentose; flowers about 12" broad; stamens about 10; anthers light yellow; styles and nutlets 4 or 5; fruit short-ellipsoid to pyriform, orange-red, 8"-io" thick, slightly tomentose, calyx-lobes persistent; flesh thick, edible. Quebec to southern Ontario, Massachusetts and New York. May : fruit ripe September. 67. Crataegus mollis (T. & G.) Scheele. Red-fruited or Downy Thorn. Fig. 2401. ?C. acerifolia Lodd.; Moench, Hort. Weiss. 28. 1785. C. coccinea var. (?) mollis T. & G. Fl. X. Am. i : 465. 1840. C. mollis Scheele, Linnaea 21: 569. 1848. C. tiliacfolia K. Koch, Weissd. 247. 1853. A tree, sometimes 40° high, with spreading branches forming a broad-topped crown. Spines 1-2' long; leaves broadly ovate, acute at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base, li'-s' long, iV_4' wide, serrate or twice serrate with narrow acute lobes, slightly rugose, membranous, densely tomentose beneath, tomentose above, becoming scabrate; corymbs tomentose; flowers about 12" broad; stamens about 20; anthers light yellow; styles and nutlets 4 or 5; fruit short-ellipsoid to subglobose. scarlet, 7"-i2" thick, calyx-lobes de- ciduous : flesh thick, edible. Southern Ontario to South Dakota, Central Ten- nessee and Arkansas. D
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