. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 34. RED-FRUITED THORN—Crataegus mollis (Torrey and Gray) Scheele Craiagus coccinea mollis Torrey and Gray This species, also called Red haw, occurs from the Isle of Orleans, Quebec, through western New England southward to Tennessee, and west to South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, and Arkansas. It is a tree sometimes 13 meters high, with wide-spreading branches, forming a broad round-topped crown; the bark is grayish brown, f
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 34. RED-FRUITED THORN—Crataegus mollis (Torrey and Gray) Scheele Craiagus coccinea mollis Torrey and Gray This species, also called Red haw, occurs from the Isle of Orleans, Quebec, through western New England southward to Tennessee, and west to South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, and Arkansas. It is a tree sometimes 13 meters high, with wide-spreading branches, forming a broad round-topped crown; the bark is grayish brown, fissured and scaly; the twigs are covered with dense woolly hairs when young, soon becoming smooth, and are armed with chestnut-brown, curved spines, from 3 to 5 cm. long. The leaves are broadly ovate, pointed at the apex, cut square or heart-shaped at the base, doubly toothed, with sharp teeth and 4 or 5 pairs of sharp lobes, 4 to 13 cm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, with appressed hairs on the upper surface, becoming roughish, wooUy-hairy beneath, halfrleathery, yellow- green; leaf-stalks woolly-hairy, sometimes , glandular when young, sometimes nearly smooth when mature, from 2 to 4 cm. long. The flowers, about 20 mm. wide, are in many-flowered, woolly-hairy corymbs; calyx densely woolly-hairy, the lobes toothed or cut, glandular; stamens 10 to 20; anthers large, light yellow; styles 4 or 5. The fruit, ripening late in August or September, is short-oblong, subglobose or pear-shaped, 15 to 25 mm. thick, red. Fig. 424. — Red-fruited Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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