A small tree sometimes 8 m. (25 feet) high, with spreading branches,
forming a flat or round crown. This species is intermediate between
_Crus-galli_ and _punctata_ and has been found as yet only in a region
where both these species are known.
I have seen specimens from the following counties: Clark (Deam); Floyd
(Deam); Gibson (Schneck), (Deam); Hamilton (Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Knox
(Schneck); Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Posey (Deam); Vigo (Blatchley);
Wells (Deam).
=3. Crataegus punctàta= Jacquin. Large-fruited Thorn. Dotted Haw. Plate
79. Bark grayish-brown, scaly; leaves light grey, 2-5 cm. (3/4-4 inches)
long, 1-5 cm. (1/4-2 inches) broad, dull gray-green and markedly
impressed-vein above, pubescent, becoming nearly glabrous above when
mature, acute or obtuse at the apex, sharply cuneate at the base,
serrate, doubly serrate or lobed at the apex, subcoriaceous; petioles
1-2 cm. (3/8-3/4 inch) long, slightly winged above; corymbs tomentose or
canescent, many flowered; flowers appear in June, about 2 cm. (5/6 inch)
wide; calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, entire; stamens about 20;
anthers white or pink; styles and nutlets usually 3 or 4; fruit ripens
in October or November, green, yellow or red, short-ellipsoidal, 1.2-2.5
cm. (1/2-1 inch) thick, flesh hard, thick; calyx lobes spreading.
=Distribution.=--Quebec to Pennsylvania, southeastern Minnesota, Iowa,
Kentucky and south to the high Alleghenies. Well distributed over
Indiana. A small tree, sometimes 10 m. (35 feet) high, with distinctly
horizontal branches and a broad, flat crown.
Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Allen (Deam);
Bartholomew (Deam); Dearborn (Deam); Fulton (Deam); Gibson (Deam); Grant
(Deam); Hamilton (Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Hendricks (Deam); Howard (Deam);
Jennings (Deam); Johnson (Deam); Marion (Deam); Noble (Deam); Putnam
(Grimes); Vermillion (Deam); Vigo (Blatchley); Wayne (Deam); Wells
(Deam).
=4. Crataegus Margarètta= Ashe. Judge Brown's Thorn. Mrs. Ashe's Thorn.
Plate 80. Bark dark grayish-brown; spines curved, 2-4 cm. (3/4-1-1/2
inches) long; leaves oblong-obovate or ovate, sometimes broadly so, 2-6
cm. (3/4-2-1/2 inches) long, 2-4 cm. (3/4-1-1/2 inches) wide, obtuse or
acute at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, serrate or doubly
serrate with 2 or 3 pairs of acute or obtuse lobes towards the apex,
glabrous when mature, dark green above, membranaceous; petioles 1-3 cm.
(3/8-1-1/4 inches) long, slightly winged; corymbs slightly pubescent,
becoming glabrous, 5-12 flowered; flowers appear in May, 1.5-2 cm.
(1/2-5/6 inch) wide; stamens about 20; anthers yellow; styles and
nutlets usually 2; calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, slightly pubescent
inside; fruit ripens in October, dull rusty green, yellow or red,
compressed-globose, to short ellipsoidal, angular, 8-25 mm. (1/2-2/3
inch) thick, flesh yellow, mealy, hard, thick; calyx lobes reflexed,
deciduous.
[Illustration: Plate 79.