486 TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



above, the lobes gradually narrowed from broad bases, acuminate, glabrous, coarsely 

 glandular-serrate; stamens 10; anthers small, bright yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded 

 at the base by a narrow ring of pale hairs. Fruit ripening late in the autumn, on 

 stout glabrous or slightly villose pedicels, in erect or drooping usually 2 or 3-fruited 

 clusters, subglobose, rarely ratlier longer than broad, about ^ i" diameter, dull 

 orange-red, often slightly villose at the ends, marked by numerous small dark dots; 

 calyx much enlarged, with a broad prominent deep tube and wide-spreading coarsely 

 glandular acuminate lobes bright red at the base on the upper side; flesh thin, light 

 yellow, sweet and rather juicy ; nutlets 3-5, full and rounded at the ends, rounded 

 and ridged on the back, with a broad low ridge, about \' long. 



A tree, occasionally 20 high, with a stem 6'-8' in diameter, covered with deeply 

 furrowed dark gray bark broken irregularly into small persistent plate-like scales, 

 and becoming on old stems often nearly black, spreading often elongated contorted 

 branches forming a broad open head, and slender zigzag branchlets at first dark 

 green tinged with red and villose, soon becoming nearly glabrous, light orange- 

 brown at midsummer, dark reddish brown or purple before winter, and ultimately 

 ashy gray, and armed with thin nearly straight chestnut-brown spines I'-l^'long; or 

 frequently a much-branched shrub, with several stout spreading stems. 



Distribution. Dry woods in the foothill region of the southern Appalachian 

 Mountains; southwestern Virginia through western North Carolina to eastern Ten- 

 nessee, northern Georgia and Alabama, usually at elevations between 1500 and 

 3500 above the sea; common. 



XV. MICRO CARP-ai. 



Fruit short-oblong ; leaves orbicular to broadly ovate, pinnately 5-7-cleft. 



116. C. apiifolia (C). 

 Fruit subglobose. 



Leaves broadly ovate to triangular, long-stalked. 117. C. cordata (A, C). 



Leaves spatulate to oblanceolate, short-stalked. 118. C. spathulata (C). 



116. Crataegus apiifolia, Michx. Parsley Haw. 



Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, acute, truncate, slightly cordate, or wedge- 

 shaped at the broad base, and pinnately 5-7-cleft, with shallow acute or deep wide 

 sinuses, and incisely lobed broad or acute segments serrate toward the apex, with 

 spreading glandular teeth, when they unfold pilose above, with long pale hairs, and 

 mostly glabrous below, fully grown when the flowers open late in March or early in 

 April, and at maturity membranaceous, bright green and rather lustrous above, 

 paler and glabrous or pilose below along the prominent midribs and primary veins, 

 or on occasional plants pubescent on both surfaces, |'-1^' broad; their petioles 

 slender, pubescent, becoming glabrous, I'-l^' long; on vigorous shoots often divided 

 nearly to the midrib, with foliaceous lunate coarsely glandular-serrate short-stalked 

 stipules sometimes ^' long. Flowers i' in diameter, on long slender hairy pedicels, 

 in crowded densely villose compound usually 10-12-fl.owered corymbs; calyx-tube 

 narrowly obconic, glabrous or covered with long matted pale hairs, the lobes lanceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous, usually glandular-serrate, often tinged with red toward the 

 apex; stamens 20; anthers bright rose color; styles 1-3. Fruit ripening in October 

 and persistent on the branches until the beginning of winter, oblong, bright scarlet, 

 ^' long; calyx prominent, the lobes elongated, reflexed, often deciduous from the 



