acq.=

Thickets, hillsides, borders of forests.

Quebec and Ontario.

Small tree, common in Vermont (Brainerd) and occasional in the other New
England states.

South to Georgia.

Thorns 1-2 inches long, sometimes branched; leaves 1-2-1/2 inches long,
smooth on the upper surface, finally smooth and dull beneath; outline
obovate, toothed or slightly lobed above, entire or nearly so beneath,
short-pointed or somewhat obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at base;
leafstalk slender, 1-2 inches long; calyx lobes linear, entire; fruit
large, red or yellow.

=Crataegus coccinea, L.=

In view of the fact of great variation in the bark, leaves,
inflorescence, and fruit of plants that have all passed in this country
as _C. coccinea_, and in view of the further uncertainty as to the plant
on which the species was originally founded, it seems "best to consider
the specimen in the Linnaean herbarium as the type of _C. coccinea_ which
can be described as follows:

"Leaves elliptical or on vigorous shoots mostly semiorbicular,
acute or acuminate, divided above the middle into numerous acute
coarsely glandular-serrate lobes, cuneate and finely
glandular-serrate below the middle and often quite entire toward
the base, with slender midribs and remote primary veins arcuate
and running to the points of the lobes, at the flowering time
membranaceous, coated on the upper surface and along the upper
surface of the midribs and veins with short soft white hairs, at
maturity thick, coriaceous, dark green and lustrous on the upper
surface, paler on the lower surface, glabrous or nearly so, 1-1/2-2
inches long and 1-1-1/2 inches wide, with slender glandular
petioles 3/4-1 inch long, slightly grooved on the upper surface,
often dark red toward the base, and like the young branchlets
villous with pale soft hairs; stipules lanceolate to oblanceolate,
conspicuously glandular-serrate with dark red glands, 1/2-3/4 inch
long. Flowers 1/2-3/4 inch in diameter when fully expanded, in
broad, many-flowered, compound tomentose cymes; bracts and
bractlets linear-lanceolate, coarsely glandular-serrate, caducous;
calyx tomentose, the lobes lanceolate, glandular-serrate, nearly
glabrous or tomentose, persistent, wide-spreading or erect on the
fruit, dark red above at the base; stamens 10; anthers yellow;
styles 3 or 4. Fruit subglobose,