34 Trees with Simple Leaves. TA n 



Genus CRAT^GUS, L. (Thorn.) 



From a Greek word meaning strength. 



Fig. 16. White Thorn, Scarlet-fruited Thorn, Red Haw. 



C. cocclnea, L. 



Leaves, SIMPLE ; ALTERNATE (and in alternate bunches) ; 



EDGE UNEVENLY SHARP-TOOTHED (with five to nine 



deep cuts almost forming small lobes). 



Outline, rounded egg-shape. Apex, pointed. Base, usu- 

 ally slightly pointed, but often blunt or slightly 

 heart-shape. 



Leaf-stem, slender and often with small wart-like glands. 



Leaf, usually one and a half to two and a half inches long, 

 but of variable size on the same tree ; thin ; smooth ; 

 shining. 



Branchlets, greenish, or whitish and shining, as though 

 washed with silver. Thorns, one to two inches long, 

 stout, often whitish, usually slightly curved. 



Floivers, about two thirds of an inch across ; white (often 

 with a rosy tinge) ; twelve or so in a bunch ; with a 

 strong and rather disagreeable odor. May. 



Fruit, nearly one half inch in diameter ; rounded or egg- 

 shape ; bright red ; with thin pulp and one to five 

 stones ; somewhat edible. September. 



Found, through the Atlantic forests southward to Northern 

 Florida and Eastern Texas. 



A low tree (or often a bush), ten to twenty feet high, 

 with crooked, spreading branches ; very common at the 

 North ; rare in the South. 



