ish-brown, shining;
scales broad, glandular-edged. Leaves simple, alternate, 3-5 inches
long, light green above, lighter beneath, broad-ovate to
broad-elliptical; rather regularly and slightly incised with fine,
glandular-tipped teeth; apex acute; base wedge-shaped, truncate, or
subcordate; roughish above and slightly pubescent beneath, especially
along the veins; leaf-stalk pubescent; stipules linear,
glandular-edged, deciduous.

=Inflorescence.=--May to June. In cymes from the season's growth;
flowers white, 3/4 inch broad, ill-smelling; calyx lobes 5, often
incised, pubescent; petals roundish; stamens indefinite, styles 3-5;
flower stems pubescent; bracts glandular.

=Fruit.=--A drupe-like pome, 1/2-1 inch long, bright scarlet, larger
than the fruit of the other New England species; ripens and falls in
September.

=Horticultural Value.=--Hardy in New England. An attractive and useful
tree in low plantations; rarely for sale by nurserymen or collectors;
propagated from the seed.

[Illustration: PLATE LX.--Crataegus mollis.]

1. Winter buds.
2. Branch with thorns.
3. Flowering branch.
4. Flower with part of perianth and stamens removed.
5. Fruiting branch.

=Note.=--The New England plants here put under the head of
_Crataegus mollis_ have been referred by Prof. C. S. Sargent to
_Crataegus submollis_ (_Bot. Gaz_., XXXI, 7, 1901). The new species
differs from the true _Crataegus mollis_ in its smaller ovate leaves
with cuneate base and more or less winged leafstalk, in the smaller
number of its stamens, usually 10, and in its pear-shaped
orange-red fruit, which drops in early September.

It is also probable that _C. Arnoldiana_, Sargent, new species, has
been collected in Massachusetts as _C. mollis_. It differs from _C.
submollis_ "in its broader, darker green, more villose leaves which
are usually rounded, not cuneate at the base, in its smaller
flowers, subglobose, not oblong or pear-shaped, crimson fruit with
smaller spreading calyx lobes, borne on shorter peduncles and
ripening two or three weeks earlier, and by its much more zigzag
and more spiny branches, which make this tree particularly
noticeable in winter, when it may readily be recognized from all
other thorn trees."--C. S. Sargent in _Bot. Gaz._, XXXI, 223, 1901.

DRUPACEAE. PLUM FAMILY.

Trees or shrubs; bark exuding gum; bark, leaves, and es