66 Trees of North Carolina 



young, the upper side of the leaves usually becoming 

 smooth and shiny green ; flowers in clusters of 10-12 ; 

 fruit small, oblong, 1 / 3 inch long, bright, shining, 

 red. The Parsley Haw is found along the borders of 

 streams and swamps or hammocks in pine barrens 

 through the coast region, and in both low and upland 

 woods of the Piedmont region. At Chapel Hill it is 

 our fi Tin Rat, ornamental Haw. Examples: trees in 

 woods by Durham-Chapel Hill near the county line, 

 and in woods near Meeting of the Waters. In full 

 flower April 30, 1916. 



101. Crataegus pruinosa (Wendl.) Koch.* Waxy 

 Thorn. 



A shrub or small tree of upland woods and rocky 

 hills of the Piedmont and mountain sections of the 

 state. Branches and thorns gray; leaves ovate, jag- 

 ged toothed, or shallowly lobed, 1-2% inches long, 

 %-2^ inches wide, sometimes with short hairs on 

 the upper surface when young, but smooth at ma- 

 turity, the under side always smooth, leaf stalk wing 

 margined and glandular; flowers few in a cluster, 

 stamens 10-20, a bunch of hairs at the base of the 

 styles, calyx lobes glandular toothed, bracts very 

 glandular; fruits globose to pear shaped, about % 

 inch in diameter, red, with small darker dots, more 

 or less pruinose. Examples : trees in woods by Dur- 

 ham-Chapel Hill road near the county line. Dates 



* Several other forms accepted as species by some authors, but 

 ignored by others, are so closely related to O. pruinosa, and so 

 difficult to distinguish clearly that we are of the opinion that they 

 belong to one variable species, or are a lot of hybrids. 



