RED HAW (Cratcegus submollis, Sarg.). 20 to 25 feet 

 Handsome, round-headed tree with slender branches, ashy 

 gray, and fuzzy twigs. Thorns slender, curved, 2 to 3 inches 

 long, shining, brown, numerous. Bark gray, pale, or brown, 

 scaly; branches orange-brown. Leaves ovate, acute, with 

 double serrations, except near base, and lobed above middle; 

 length between 2 and 4 inches, width nearly equal; smooth, 

 yellow-green, scabrous above, paler beneath, hairy on veins 

 and petioles. Flowers large, white, in dense corymbs, May; 

 stamens 10, with yellow anthers; styles 3 to 5, tufted at base. 

 Fruit September, soon falling; clusters copious, of orange-red, 

 pale-dotted, pear-shaped pomes, f inch long, with thin, mealy 

 flesh. Nutlets 5, slightly ridged. Dist.: Rich woodland 

 borders, along St. Lawrence River in the Province of Quebec, 

 and south to valley of Penobscot River, in Maine; to eastern 

 Massachusetts; also near Albany, New York. 



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