Crataegus intricata, Lange

1. C. intricata Lange View in CoL , Bot. Tidsskr. 19: 264 (1895)

( C. coccinea auct. plur., non L.).

Shrub up to 3 m; twigs glabrous, purplishbrown; spines up to 30 mm. Leaves 35-70 x 20-60 mm, ellipticovate, acute, bright green, glabrous above and nearly so beneath; lobes 7-11, short, acute, serrate; petiole 15-25 mm. Corymb slightly villous. Sepals glandular-serrate; stamens 10; anthers yellow. Fruit 10-12 mm, subglobose, reddish-brown; pyrenes 3-4. Cultivatedfor ornament in C. Europe and rarely naturalized. [Rm.] (F. North America.)

C. mollis (Torrey & A. Gray) Scheele , Linnaea 21: 569 (1848), with leaves densely pubescent beneath when young (but later usually only on the veins), and usually pyriform, scarlet fruit, from C. North America, and C. submollis Sarg. , Bot. Gaz. 31: 7 (1901), with leaves softly pubescent beneath when young (but later only puberulent on the veins), and larger, bright orange-red fruit, from E. North America, are both widely planted in gardens and for hedges in N.W. Europe; they have both passed for a long time under the name C. coccinea L.