RED HAW (Cratcegus coccinoides, Ashe). 10 to 25 feet. 

 Handsome, thrifty tree, with round dome of stout branches. 

 Thorns 1^ to 2 inches long, stout, straight, reddish purple. 

 Bark dark brown, scaly; tw r igs red, smooth. Leaves broadly 

 ovate, doubly serrate, acutely lobed above the middle, 2 to 

 3 inches long, polished, yellow-green above, at first, becoming 

 dark and dull; turning orange and scarlet. Stems red. Flow- 

 ers in May, in crowded corymbs, white, large; stamens 20, 

 with large, rosy anthers; styles 5. Fruit in October, in dense, 

 erect clusters, the pomes flattened, globular, lustrous, dark 

 red, with pale dots; flesh thick, red, acid. Dist.: Dry woods. 

 St. Louis, Missouri, to eastern^ Kansas. 



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