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CRATAiGUS COCCINIOIDES. 
Red Haw. 
STAMENS 20; anthers rose color. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, sharply lobed, thin, 
dull green. 
Cratzegus coccinioides, Ashe, Jour. Hlisha Mitchell Sci. Crategus Eggertii, Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. i. 447 
Soc. xvi. pt. ii. 74 (February, 1900). (in part) (March, 1900); Man. 520. 
A tree, sometimes twenty feet in height, with a stem eight or ten inches in diameter covered with 
dark brown bark broken into small closely appressed scales, and stout spreading light gray branches 
forming a broad handsome head. The branchlets are stout, nearly straight, marked by small scattered 
pale lenticels, and armed with thick dark reddish purple shining spines which are rather remote from 
each other and from an inch and a half to two inches in length ; when they first appear the branchlets 
are glabrous, dark green, and more or less tinged with red, becoming bright chestnut-brown and very 
lustrous before autumn, gray or reddish brown during their second year, and dull ashy gray during 
their third season. The leaves are broadly ovate, acute, full and rounded or truncate, and on vigorous 
shoots frequently more or less cordate, at the base, sharply and often doubly serrate, with straight 
glandular teeth, and divided above the middle into a number of short acute lobes; as they unfold they 
are conspicuously plicate, very lustrous, yellow-green, and villose on the lower side of the midribs, with 
a few short pale hairs which are usually persistent during the season ; they soon lose their lustre, and at 
maturity the leaves are thin but firm in texture, rather rigid, dull dark green and smooth on the upper 
surface, pale on the lower surface, from two inches and a half to three inches long, and on vigorous 
shoots often three inches and a half long and broad, with thin pale yellow midribs deeply impressed 
above and often bright red toward the base after midsummer, and slender primary veins arching to the 
points of the lobes; they are borne on slender ridged petioles slightly grooved and glandular on the 
upper side, with minute stalked dark red glands, at first villose but soon glabrous, often bright red or 
pink toward the base, and from three quarters of an inch to an inch in length. The stipules are 
coarsely serrate, with gland-tipped teeth, and are lanceolate, and on leading shoots often lunate. Late 
in October the leaves turn gradually bright orange and scarlet. The flowers, which open early in May 
and are an inch and a quarter in diameter, are produced in very compact five to seven-flowered 
glabrous or slightly villose corymbs, with coarsely serrate oblong-obovate acute bracts and bractlets, 
conspicuous like the inner bud-scales from their large bright red glands. The calyx-tube is broadly 
obconic and the lobes are gradually narrowed from broad bases, acute, and coarsely glandular-serrate. 
There are twenty stamens with stout filaments and large rose-colored anthers, and five styles surrounded 
at the base by a ring of pale tomentum. The fruit, which ripens early in October and falls gradually 
during a month or six weeks, is borne on stout bright red pedicels about half an inch long, in few- 
fruited erect compact clusters; it is subglobose, much flattened at the ends, with a deep cavity at the 
insertion of the stalk, often obscurely five-angled, dark crimson, very lustrous, marked by numerous 
large pale dots, and about three quarters of an inch long and seven eighths of an inch broad ; the calyx 
is much enlarged and conspicuous, with a broad deep cavity and spreading or erect lobes bright red 
on the upper side near the base; the flesh is thick, firm, subacid, and more or less deeply tinged with 
red. The five nutlets, which are small in comparison with the size of the fruit, are light-colored and 
are rounded and slightly ridged on the back, and about one third of an inch in length. 
Crategus coccinioides inhabits rather dry woods, and is distributed from the neighborhood of St. 
