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 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
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 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. Do
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