. 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. 470 The Thorn Trees larly along the veins below, thin and firm, dark green above, paler below, to 9 cm. long, 2 to 8 cm. wide; leaf-stalks slightly winged toward the apex, woolly-hairy, i to 2 cm. long. The flowers are about 15 mm. wide, in many-flowered, woolly-hairy corymbs; calyx-tube densely woolly-hairy, the lanceolate, long-pointed lobes less hairy, glandular-toothed; stamens about 20; styles 5. The fruit ripens
. 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. 470 The Thorn Trees larly along the veins below, thin and firm, dark green above, paler below, to 9 cm. long, 2 to 8 cm. wide; leaf-stalks slightly winged toward the apex, woolly-hairy, i to 2 cm. long. The flowers are about 15 mm. wide, in many-flowered, woolly-hairy corymbs; calyx-tube densely woolly-hairy, the lanceolate, long-pointed lobes less hairy, glandular-toothed; stamens about 20; styles 5. The fruit ripens in August or September; it is depressed-globose, 12 to 15 mm. thick, red, hairj-, calyx-lobes re- flexed; flesh thin, yellow, dry and mealy; Fig. 423. —NashvUle Thorn. ' .1 l ' o 1 .il It contams 5 nutlets 7 to 8 mm. long, the nest 10 to II mm. thick; nutlets lightly grooved on the back, with a deep sinus between 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
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