RED HAW (Crataegus malls, Scheele). 25 to 40 feet. as ad-headed tree with stout branches and twigs. Bark then, gray to brown, in scaly plates; twigs hairy, becoming smooth and gray. Thorns stout, brown, I to t inches, shining. Leaves thick, firm, rough, dark yellow-green, S to 4 inches long, broadly ovate, acute, serrate, with several pointed lobes above the middle; base entire; lining pale, fuzzy; petioles slender. Flowers 1 inch across, with hoary, red-tipped calyx, 0 yellow-tipped stamens, and 4 to 5 styles with circle of white fuzz around them. Fruit August, few in a cluster, drooping, scarlet, downy, globular, nearly 1 inch in diameter, marked with dark dots. Flesh mealy, yellow. Dist.: Bottom lands, Ohio to Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
long, shining, brown, numerous. Bark gray, pale, or brown, scaly; branches orange-brown.- Leaves ovate, acute, with double serrations, except near base, and lobed above middle; length between 2 and 4 inches, width nearly equal; smooth, yellow-green, scabrous above, paler beneath, hairy on veins and petioles. Flowers large, white, in dense corymbs, May; stamens 10, with yellow anthers; styles 3 to 5, tufted at base. Fruit September, soon falling; clusters copious, of orange-red, pale-dotted, pear-shaped pomes, inch long, with thin, mealy flesh. Nutlets 5, slightly ridged. Dist.: Rich woodland borders, along St. Lawrence River in the Province of Quebec, and south to valley of Penobscot River, in Maine; to eastern Massachusetts; also near Albany, New York.