SCARLET Raw (Cratccgus coccinea, Linn.). 10 to 40 feet. Shrubby, round-headed tree, with short trunk and stout branches. Thorns stout, short, brown, shiny. Bark dark red-brown, scaly; branches gray, twigs slender, with pale hairs. Leaves elliptical or obovate, tapering at both ends, saw-toothed on acutely lobed sides, 4 to 3 inches long, with numerous, prominent veins; leathery, thin, dark, lustrous above; paler beneath. Flowers in early summer, small, in
broad corymbs with downy stems; stamens 10, with small, yellow anthers. Fruit in October, soon falling, pomes oblong, inch long, dark red with black dots; calyx red, spreading; flesh thin, sweet, dry; nutlets 3 or 4, distinctly ridged on back. Dist.: Newfoundland to Connecticut, along shore, and fol lowing St. Lawrence River to western Quebec.