DOTTED HAW (Crategus punctata, Jacq.). 20 to 30 feet. Broad, round-headed tree, or flat-topped, with stout, hori zontal branches, and twigs at first coated with pale pubescence, then gray. Thorns straight, slim, 2 to 3 inches long, orange brown or gray. Bark thin, dark red, shed in long, plate-like scales; limbs brown or gray. Wood red-brown, hard, close grained, used for fuel. Leaves obovate, pointed or blunt, tapering to plain-margined, wedge-shaped base, coarsely serrate above, thick, firm, gray-green above, with prominent veins and midrib deeply grooved above. Length 2 to 3 inches,
half as wide; autumn color, orange and scarlet. Flowers as in preceding species, except that anthers are often yellow; styles 2 to 5. Fruit short-oblong, z to 1 inch long, red or yellow, marked by white dots; flesh thin, dry; nutlets ridged. Dist.: Western New England to Detroit, and into Illinois and Ohio; along mountains to North Carolina and Tennessee. Valuable ornamental tree.