RED THORN, OR SIBERIAN HAWTHORN. 7 
Cratjegus punctata , (Z. brevispina. Dougl. in Hook. Flor. Bor. 
Am., vol. 1. p. 201. 
Crataegus glandulosa , Pursh, vol. 1. p. 337, (as it regards the 
plant collected by Capt. Lewis in the Rocky Mountains.) 
Crataegus Douglasii , Lindl. Bot. Regist. tab. 1810. Loudon, 
Arbor. Brit., vol. 3. p. 823. 
This species of Hawthorn, which becomes a tree 18 
to 25 feet in height, is first met with to the West, on 
the borders of rivulets, in the range of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, particularly on their western declivity, from 
whence it continues along the banks of the Oregon, and 
particularly its tributaries, down to the shores of the 
Pacific. We found it also, in great perfection, loaded 
with its sweet, nearly black, and pleasant fruit, on the 
banks of the Wahlamet. The stem attains to about the 
diameter of 3 to 6 inches, with a whitish, compact, close- 
grained wood, of which, in common with the Crab 
Apple of that country, the natives make their wedges 
for splitting trees. 
The Siberian plant, according to Pallas, begins to be 
found to the south of the Uralian Mountains, and con- 
tinues beyond the Obi through all the southern tract of 
Siberia, in dry mountainous situations, and in the thick- 
ets which border the higher rivulets; exactly the sort 
of situations affected by the American plant in the 
Alpine region where it commences. It also, like ours, 
becomes a tree 12 to 18 feet in height. 
Lewis and Clarke speak of finding haws, probably of 
this or the following species, on Flat Head River, which 
heads against the sources of the Missouri. 
Almost entirely deprived of vegetable food, every 
accession of fruit, however meagre, was hailed with 
delight by our famished party, and the ripe berries of 
this fine Hawthorn were collected with avidity. The 
bushes, or rather trees were, however, so high that we 
