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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11pennx (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Dept. of Forestry
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : The Department : WM. Stanley Ray, state printer of Pennsylvania
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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PLATE LXXXIX. SCARLET HAWTHORN 1. A (lowering liranch, x ^. 2. Lougitiidiiuil soctioii of a IIonvit, natural size. 3. A frnitinR branch, x J. 4. St'ctiun of a Iruit, x J. 5. A winter twlp with a thorn, x 3- V,. Serlioi) of H twiff sUowintf a thorn ami a hud by its base, »lit;htly enlarged. 177 SCARLET HAWTHORN Crataegus coccinea, Linnaeus ^ FORM—A small tree rarely exceeding a height of 20 ft. with a diameter of 10 inches, rrunk short, stout, bearing rather crooked spreading branches which form a broad and flat crown. •^*^"~^t^«>^ ^^^^' i*«ht brown to ashy-gray, in time roughened by shallow fissures «epa- ratinsr small scales. TWIGS—Stiff, round In cross-section, at first greenish, later reddish, brownish or grayish, glossy, armed with slender usually straight, brown, glossy spines about 2 inches long. BUDS—Alternate, aboyt i of an inch long, often almost spherical, very blunt-pointed, covereoth of wliich are pubescent. The leaves are 5-9 lotted or deeply cut and finely serrate. The small nearly sithorlcal chestnut-brown buds and the slender usually straight thorns on the branches will aid in distinguishing it from most of our native species of trees. It is next to impossible to distinguish all the species of the genus Crataegus from each other. , RANGE—Uastem Massachusetts and Vemwnt, southward through New York and Tennsylvania to North Carolina. DISTRIBUTION IN PENNSYLVANIA—Found throughout the State. Not so abundant in the northern and southwestern parts as elsewhere. HABITAT—^Usually found in rocky woods and old pastures with sandy or gravelly soil. Rather common along fences. IMPORTANCE OF THE SPECIES—The Scarlet Hawthorn is of no commercial importance in the forest. It is, however, attractive on account of its flowers, autunmal color of its foliage, and the color of its persistent fruit. G—13 INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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