8 RED THORN, OR SIBERIAN HAWTHORN. 
could only come at the fruit on horseback, or after 
ascending the trunk, which often appeared equal to 
that of an ordinary apple tree. 
The summit of the tree is round and spreading, and 
the thorns vary in size, though they are often short, and 
in no case numerous. The leaves are broad and some- 
Avhat rounded above, cuneate at the base, smooth, on 
the upper surface, and always more or less pubescent 
beneath, the margin is incise and serrate, and divided 
often into 5 to 7 shallow lobes. The flowers are white, 
rather large, and numerous, disposed in a corymb, with 
the peduncles and base of the calyx more or less pilose 
and glandular. The styles 3 or 4, are occasionally as 
many as 5. The segments of the calyx are rather long 
and acuminated, membranaceous on the margin and 
appressed to the flower. The berries are shortly ellip- 
tic or oval, and nearly black or dark purple when ripe. 
In the Siberian plant, described by Pallas, they are 
scarlet; but he remarks, that according to Steller, the 
haws of Kamtschatka are both red and black, and that 
there they are not only used as agreeable fruits, but are 
also collected for the purpose of distillation into spirits. 
A good spirit is likewise obtained by the fermentation 
and distillation of the fruit of the common Hawthorn, 
( C. oxyaccmtha.) 
This species is very nearly allied to C. coccinea, with 
which indeed Pallas compares it; but in C. coccinea the 
leaves have longer petioles, it bears much larger flowers, 
with larger segments to the calyx. The fruit is also (in 
our plant) smaller, and the plant more decidedly arbo- 
rescent. 
Plate XLIV. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The fruit. 
