SCARLET HAW (Cratcegus coccinea, Linn.). 10 to 20 feet. 

 Shrubby, round-headed tree, with short trunk and stout 

 branches. Thorns stout, short, brown, shiny. Bark dark 

 red-brown, scaly; branches gray, twigs slender, with pale 

 hairs. Leaves elliptical or obovate, tapering at both ends, 

 saw-toothed on acutely lobed sides, 2 to 3 inches long, with 

 numerous, prominent veins; leathery, thin, dark, lustrous 

 above; paler beneath. Flowers in early summer, small, in 

 broad corymbs with downy stems; stamens 10, with small, 

 yellow anthers. Fruit in October, soon falling, pomes oblong, 

 \ inch long, dark red with black dots; calyx red, spreading; 

 flesh thin, sweet, dry; nutlets 3 or 4, distinctly ridged on back. 

 Dist.: Newfoundland to Connecticut, along shore, and fol- 

 lowing St. Lawrence River to western Quebec. 



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