THE 



Shrubs of North Carolina, 



Under this head will be included those woody 

 plants which do not ordinarily exceed 20 feet in 

 height, whatever may be their form. So many of 

 these are without names, and there is such a variety 

 in their fruits or seed-vessels, that I cannot make so 

 intelligible an arrangement of them for popular use 

 as I have done for the Trees. Still, I hope that most 

 of them, and all that are of any importance, can be 

 identified without much difficulty. They will be ar- 

 ranged, like the Trees, according to the character of 

 their fruit, under the two primary divisions of the 

 Fleshy Fruited and Dry Fruited, beginning with the 

 former. 



Quite a number of shrubs have been already de- 

 scribed under the class of Trees, wherever a genus 

 included both classes. 



RED HAWS. — Thorny shrubs, sometimes tree- 

 shaped, with white flowers, mostly in flat topped 

 clusters, and colored (generally red) fruit containing 

 1 to 5 bony seeds. 



1. Scarlet Haw. (Crataegus coccinea, Linn.) 



