28 ALLARD: CRATAEGUS AT THOMpPSON’s MILLs, GA. 
horizontal or downward sloping planes. The almost vertically 
growing leaves are very abundant, smooth above, and rather a 
dull shade of dark green. These are arranged almost invariably 
along the upper side of the branches in numerous close clusters 
which closely invest the compound corymbs of small, white, numer- 
ous bossoms. Each flower cluster is made up of from 12 to 25 
blossoms. The buds are sometimes rose-tinged. About May I, 
the slender branches become graceful, white flower plumes, which 
fill the air around with a pleasing, penetrating, spicy fragrance. 
Slender, tapering thorns from I to 1.25 inches long are usually 
abundant. The bark of this Crataegus is usually smooth and 
gray or brownishin color. The tiny fruits are ripened abundantly 
about October 15 at Thompson’s Mills. These fruits are small, 
globose or somewhat flattened, reddish orange in color, and do 
not shed readily when mature as with C. uniflora and others. 
The fruits are dry and possess little taste. This thorn is one 
of the most ornamental shrubs in the Thompson’s Mills region, 
and deserves far more attention than it usually receives. 
CRATAEGUS UNIFLORA Muench. This pretty little Crataegus 
is a very common species in fields and rocky pastures. In the 
stock pasture mentioned at the beginning of this paper, particu- 
larly fine round-headed specimens of this thorn are everywhere 
common. Here it is a small, much branched shrub usually from 
two to about four feet in height. Under favorable conditions 
its short, numerous, stiff branches grow out equally on all sides 
producing a compact, rounded and symmetrical shrub of very 
pretty appearance. 
The pale green mostly obovate or oblong cuneiform leaves are 
crenate-toothed and finely pubescent, so that it appears as if the 
upper surface were covered with the thinnest gossamer. 
The almost sessile blossoms, which are about 0.5 inch in dia- 
meter, appear about the first week of May and are mostly solitary 
or in corymbs of two or three. The small size of these blossoms 
makes them rather inconspicuous among their leaf rosettes, so 
that they do not greatly add to the ornamental qualities of the 
shrub during the season of bloom. They possess, however, a very 
marked spicy fragrance. A conspicuous feature of the blossoms 
of this thorn is the calyx with its long, narrow, leaflike, sharply 
