=Distribution.=--Connecticut to Ontario, Illinois, Delaware and
Pennsylvania.
A small tree sometimes 8 m. (25 feet) high, with ascending and spreading
branches and a broad, round-topped crown.
Specimens have been seen from the following counties: Floyd (Deam); Knox
(Deam); Noble (VanGorder); Steuben (Deam); White (Deam).
=Horticultural Uses.=--This fine tree has been in the gardener's hands
several centuries. There are specimens in the Kew Gardens, England, more
than two hundred years old.
=20a. Crataegus coccinea= var. =Ellwangeriàna=, n. nom. (_Crataegus
pedicillata_ var. _Ellwangeriana_ (Sargent) Eggleston). Corymbs densely
villous; fruit slightly villous.
=Distribution.=--Known in Indiana from Deam's specimen No. 27355 from
Warren County.
=21. Crataegus móllis= (Torrey and Gray) Scheele. Red-fruited or Downy
Thorn. Red Haw. Plate 97. Bark grayish-brown, fissured and scaly; spines
curved, 3-5 cm. (1-2 inches) long; leaves broadly ovate, acute at the
apex, cordate to truncate at the base, serrate or twice serrate with
narrow acute lobes, 4-13 cm. (1-1/2-5 inches) long, 4-10 cm. (1-1/2-4
inches) wide, slightly rugose, densely tomentose beneath, tomentose
above, becoming scabrous, membranaceous; petioles 2-4 cm. (3/4-1-1/2
inches) long, tomentose; corymbs tomentose, many-flowered; flowers
appear in May, about 2.5 cm. (1 inch) broad; stamens about 20; anthers
light yellow; styles and nutlets 4 or 5; fruit ripens in September,
short-ellipsoidal to subglobose, scarlet, 1.5-2.5 cm. (1/2-1 inch)
thick, flesh thick, yellow, edible; calyx lobes glandular-serrate,
swollen, erect or spreading, deciduous.
=Distribution.=--Southern Ontario to South Dakota, south to central
Tennessee and Arkansas. This thorn is well distributed over Indiana.
A small tree often 13 m. (40 feet) high, with ascending and spreading
branches, forming a broad, round-topped crown.
Specimens have been examined from the following counties: Allen (Deam);
Cass (Mrs. Ida Jackson); Dearborn (Deam); Decatur (Deam); Delaware
(Deam); Floyd (Deam); Gibson (Schneck), (Deam); Hancock (Deam);
Hendricks (Deam); Henry (Deam); Jackson (Deam); Knox (Schneck), (Deam);
Madison (Deam); Marion (Mrs. Chas. C. Deam); Montgomery (Grimes); Posey
(Deam); Putnam (Grimes); Shelby (Deam); Sullivan (Deam); Vermillion
(Deam); Wells (Deam); Whitley (Deam).
[Illustration: Plate 97.