=8. Crataegus Calpodéndron= (Ehrhart) Medicus. Pear-thorn. Pear or Red
Haw. Plate 84. Bark pale gray to dark brown, furrowed; spines
occasional, slender 3-5 cm. (1-1/4-2 inches) long; leaves rhombic-ovate,
4-11 cm. (1-1/2-4-1/2 inches) long, 3-8 cm. (1-1/4-3 inches) wide, acute
or acuminate at the apex, finely and doubly serrate, those on the
vegetative shoots obtuse and more entire than the others, pubescent on
both sides, becoming scabrate above, subcoriaceous, dull green above;
petioles about 2 cm. (3/4 inch) long, wing margined, glandular hairy;
corymbs white-tomentose, many flowered; flowers appear in June, about
1.5 cm. (2/3 inch) broad; stamens about 20; anthers small, pink; styles
and nutlets usually 2 or 3; calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, glandular
laciniate; fruit ripens in September, pyriform to ellipsoidal,
orange-red or red, 8-10 mm. (1/3 inch) thick, flesh glutinous; nutlets
with deep pits in their inner faces; calyx lobes reflexed.
=Distribution.=--Central New York, northeastern New Jersey to Minnesota
and Missouri and south in the mountains to northern Georgia.
A large shrub or occasionally a tree 6 m. (20 feet) high, with ascending
branches forming a broad crown.
Specimens have been examined from the following counties: Boone (Deam);
Floyd (Deam); Hancock (Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Harrison (Deam); Marion
(Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Posey (Deam); Putnam (Grimes); Tippecanoe (Stanley
Coulter); Wells (Deam); White (Deam); Whitley (Deam).
=9. Crataegus chrysocárpa= Ashe. (_Crataegus Dodgei_ Sargent. _Crataegus
rotundifolia_, Borckhausen.) Round-leaved Thorn. Plate 85. Bark dark
red-brown, scaly; spines numerous, chestnut-brown, curved, 2-5 cm. (1-2
inches) long; leaves ovate-orbicular or obovate, 3-6 cm. (1-1/4-2-1/4
inches) long, 2-6 cm. (3/4-2-1/4 inches) wide, acute at the apex,
broadly cuneate at the base, doubly serrate with rather coarse teeth and
with 3 or 4 pairs of acute lobes, subcoriaceous, dark yellow-green and
shining above, slightly pubescent or glabrous; corymbs glabrous or
slightly pubescent; flowers 10-15 mm. (1/2-3/4 inch) wide; stamens 5-10;
anthers light yellow; styles and nutlets usually 3-4; calyx lobes
lanceolate, acuminate, usually entire, but glandular margined; fruit
depressed-globose to short ovoid, about 10 mm. (1/2 inch) thick, flesh
soft; calyx lobes reflexed.
=Distribution.=--Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Saskatchewan, south to
Nebraska and Pennsylvania and in the mountains to North Carolina and New
Mexico.
Round topped shrub or tree sometimes 8 meters (25 feet) high.
Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Delaware and
Lagrange (Deam).
[Illustration: Plate 85.