GREEN HAW (Cratcegus viridis, Linn.). 20 to 35 feet. 

 Round-headed tree with tall, often fluted trunk, and spreading 

 branches, ending in smooth, slim, gray or red-brown twigs. 

 Thorns slender, sharp, pale, less than 1 inch long; oftener 

 wanting. Bark checked into plates, thin, scaly, orange, 

 brown, or ashy gray. Wood like that of preceding species. 

 Leaves obovate, tapering to both extremities, serrate and 

 lobed above middle, plain below, dark green, lustrous above, 

 pale, dull beneath; 1 to 3 inches long, with prominent veins 

 and midrib. Flowers March to May, white, f inch across, 

 smooth; anthers yellow; styles 5; clusters dense. Fruit 

 flattened, scarlet, pea-size, in pendent clusters, many-f ruited ; 

 flesh thin, dry; nutlets 5, scarcely ridged. Dist.: Savannah 

 River .westward to eastern Texas; north to St. Louis. Ex- 

 tensive thickets in Louisiana and eastern Texas. Valuable 

 for ornamental planting, for its scarlet autumn foliage. 



