Handbook ov Tkkk.s of the A^oin 



Statks and Caxada. 



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The Green Haw is a stiirfly representative 

 of the genus, attaining tlie hciglit of from 'M)-'A5 

 ft. with broad or rounded intrieatidy branched 

 top and clear trunl< I'J (u- IS in. in diameter. 

 'J'liis is often ridged and liuted and is vested in 

 a pale gray or biownisli bark, which e.vfoliate- 

 in small friable scales. It inhabits the ban!;s 

 of streams, moist low-lands and lake-shores 

 and is particularly abundant and well devel- 

 oped along the bayous of the Mississippi river 

 in the vicinity of St. Louis and southward. In 

 these localities it is found in company with 

 the Pecan, King-nut Hickory, Water and 

 Honey Locusts, Forestiera, Pin and Shingle 

 Oaks, Cottonwood, etc., and among them its 

 full rounded top is one of tlie most attractive 

 objects particulaily when in tlower or bearing 

 its ripe fruit. 



Leaves mostly elliptic to lance-ovate or obovatc, 

 IV^-o in. long, ciineate or abruptly contracted and 

 entire at base, mostly acute or bluntly pointed at 

 apex, irregularly serrate or serrate-dentate, some 

 on vigorous shoots with shallow lobes, glabrous 

 or with pale hairs in the axils beneath ; petioles 

 slender 1-1 1/4 in. long. Flotcers in May, about 

 % in. across, in many-flowered compound corymbs, 

 with long slender glabrous pedicels ; calyx glab- 

 rous, with narrow entire lobes ; stamens 20, an- 

 thers pale yellow ; styles usually 5 with pale hairs 

 at base. Fruit subglobose or somewhat obovoid, 

 bright scarlet or orange, about H in. long or less, 

 in drooping clusters with long slender stems ; 

 flesh thin, nutlets usually .">. slightly ribbed on 

 back-. 



