. 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. Fig. 400. — Small's Haw. II. SUMMER HAW —CratsBgus flava Aiton. Fig. 401. — Summer Haw. This species occurs in sandy thickets from Virginia to Florida and Texas. It is a tree sometimes 8 meters high, with spreading or ascending branches, forming a broad irregular top; the bark is dark brown, scaly; the twigs are red-brown and armed with chestnut- brown spines i to 6 cm. long. The leaves are oval, ovate or obovate, 2 to 5.
. 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. Fig. 400. — Small's Haw. II. SUMMER HAW —CratsBgus flava Aiton. Fig. 401. — Summer Haw. This species occurs in sandy thickets from Virginia to Florida and Texas. It is a tree sometimes 8 meters high, with spreading or ascending branches, forming a broad irregular top; the bark is dark brown, scaly; the twigs are red-brown and armed with chestnut- brown spines i to 6 cm. long. The leaves are oval, ovate or obovate, 2 to cm. long, to 4 cm. broad, pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, cre- nate-toothed or lobed toward the apex, with gland-tipped teeth, thin, smooth at maturity, yellow-green; leaf-stalks winged toward the apex, glandular, 5 to 15 mm. long. The flowers are about 15 mm. wide in few-flowered hairy corymbs; the calyx-tube is nearly smooth,. 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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