DOTTED HAW (Cratcegus punctata, Jacq.). 20 to 30 feet. 

 Broad, round-headed tree, or flat-topped, with stout, hori- 

 zontal branches, and twigs at first coated with pale pubescence, 

 then gray. Thorns straight, slim, 2 to 3 inches long, orange- 

 brown or gray. Bark thin, dark red, shed in long, plate-like 

 scales; limbs brown or gray. Wood red-brown, hard, close- 

 grained, used for fuel. Leaves obovate, pointed or blunt, 

 tapering to plain-margined, wedge-shaped base, coarsely 

 serrate above, thick, firm, gray-green above, with prominent 

 veins and midrib deeply grooved above. Length 2 to 3 inches, 

 half as w r ide; autumn color, orange and scarlet. Flowers as 

 in preceding species, except that anthers are often yellow; 

 styles 2 to 5. Fruit short-oblong, ^ to 1 inch long, red or 



Sallow, marked by white dots; flesh thin, dry; nutlets ridged, 

 ist.: Western New England to Detroit, and into Illinois 

 and Ohio; along mountains to North Carolina and Tennessee. 

 Valuable ornamental tree. 



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