occasionally rather longer than
broad, dark crimson, marked with scattered dark dots, about 1/2
inch in diameter, with thin, sweet, dry yellow flesh; nutlets 3 or
4, about 1/4 inch long, conspicuously ridged on the back with high
grooved ridges.

"A low, bushy tree, occasionally 20 feet in height with a short
trunk 8-10 inches in diameter, or more frequently shrubby and
forming wide dense thickets, and with stout more or less zigzag
branches bright chestnut brown and lustrous during their first
year, ashy-gray during their second season and armed with many
stout, chestnut-brown, straight or curved spines 1-1-1/2 inches
long. Flowers late in May. Fruit ripens and falls toward the end of
October, usually after the leaves.

"Slopes of hills and the high banks of salt marshes usually in
rich, well-drained soil, Essex county, Massachusetts, John
Robinson, 1900; Gerrish island, Maine, J. G. Jack, 1899-1900;
Brunswick, Maine, Miss Kate Furbish, May, 1899; Newfoundland, A. C.
Waghorne, 1894."[1]

[Footnote 1: Prof. C. S. Sargent in _Bot. Gaz._, XXXI, 12. By permission
of the publishers.]

=Crataegus mollis, Scheele.=

_Crataegus subvillosa, Schr. Crataegus coccinea,_ var. _mollis, T. & G._

THORN.

=Habitat and Range.=--Bordering on low lands and along streams.

Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Maine,--as far north as Mattawamkeag on the middle Penobscot, Dover on
the Piscataquis, and Orono on the lower Penobscot; reported also from
southern sections; Vermont,--Charlotte (Hosford); Massachusetts,--in the
eastern part infrequent; no stations reported in the other New England
states.

South to Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Texas; west to Michigan and
Missouri.

=Habit.=--Shrub or often a small tree, 20-30 feet high, with trunk 6-12
inches in diameter, often with numerous suckers; branches at 4-6 feet
from the ground, at an acute angle with the stem, lower often horizontal
or declining; head spreading, widest at base, spray short, angular, and
bushy; thorns slender, 1-3 inches long, straight or slightly recurved.

=Bark.=--Bark of the whole tree, except the ultimate shoots, light gray,
on the trunk and larger branches separating lengthwise into thin narrow
plates, in old trees dark gray and more or less shreddy; season's shoots
reddish or yellowish-brown, glossy.

=Winter Buds and Leaves.=--Buds small, ovate, redd