. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Summer Haw 455 lo. SMALL'S HAW — Oratsegrus lacrimata Small Small's haw grows in sandy woods and along borders of streams of western Florida. It is a large shrub or a small tree, 3 to 5 meters high, with drooping branches forming a handsome roxmd-topped crown; the bark is ashy-gray, deeply furrowed; the twigs are orange-brown becoming gray-brown, smooth, and are armed with numerous small straight chestnut-brown spines fro
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Summer Haw 455 lo. SMALL'S HAW — Oratsegrus lacrimata Small Small's haw grows in sandy woods and along borders of streams of western Florida. It is a large shrub or a small tree, 3 to 5 meters high, with drooping branches forming a handsome roxmd-topped crown; the bark is ashy-gray, deeply furrowed; the twigs are orange-brown becoming gray-brown, smooth, and are armed with numerous small straight chestnut-brown spines from i to cm. long. The leaves are wedge-spatulate, 10 to 20 mm. long, 5 to 15 mm. wide, rounded, square cut, or pointed at the apex, strongly wedge-shaped at the base, glandular-toothed above the middle with small curved teeth, 3-nerved, smooth, yel- low-green, half-leathery; leaf-stalks slightly hairy, wing-margined above, 5 to 15 mm. long. The flowers are about 2 cm. broad in i-to 5- flowered smooth corymbs; calyx-lobes lanceo- late, long-pointed; stamens about 20; anthers bright yellow; styles 3 to 5. The fruit ripens late in August; it is globose or short- oblong, dull brownish yellow, about 8 mm. thick, calyx-lobes spreading; flesh thin, yellow, dry; it contains 3 to 5 nutlets, commonly 3 or 4, 5 to 6 mm. long, slightly ridged on the back, the nest 6 to 7 mm. Fig. 400. — Small's Haw. II. SUMMER HAW —CratsBgus flava Aiton. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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