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CRATAGUS SPATHULATA. 
Small Fruited Haw. 
LrAvses submembranaceous, spatulate or oblanceolate, crenately toothed or lobed 
above the middle. 
Crateegus spathulata, Michaux, FV. Bor-Am. i. 288.— Per- Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 107 (Man. Pl. W. 
soon, Syn. ii. 37. — Elliott, Sh. i. 552.— Loddiges, Bot. Texas). 
Cab. t. 1261.—Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 599.—Gray, Bot. Mespilus spathulata, Poiret, Lam. Dict. Suppl. iv. 68. — 
Reg. under t. 1957.— Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. Am. i. Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii. 157.— Du Mont de Courset, 
467. — Dietrich, Syn. iii. 160.— Chapman, Fl. 126. — Bot. Cult. ed. 2, v. 455.— Sprengel, Syst. ii. 507.— 
Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. i. 112.— Kaleniczenko, Budl. Spach, Hist. Vég. ii. 66.— Koch, Dendr. i. 137. 
Mose. xlviii. pt. ii. 31. — Ridgway, Am. Nat. vi. 728.— Cratzegus microcarpa, Lindley, Bot. Reg. t. 1846. 
Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. 8. ix. Pheenopyrum spathulatum, Roemer, Fam. Nat. Syn. 
81.— Watson & Coulter, Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 165. — iii. 155. 
Cotoneaster spathulata, Wenzig, Linnea, xxxviii. 201. 
A tree, eighteen to twenty-five feet in height, with a straight trunk occasionally eight or ten inches 
in diameter, and slender upright branches; or more often a shrub with numerous spreading stems. 
The bark of the trunk is generally smooth, with minute red-brown appressed scales, and is rarely more 
than a sixteenth of an inch thick. The branchlets are slender, zigzag, and glabrous; during their first 
year they are light reddish brown and marked with minute pale lenticels, and later become darker 
brown; they are unarmed or armed with straight stout light brown spines an inch to an inch and a half 
in length. The winter-buds are one sixteenth of an inch long, obtuse, and protected by chestnut-brown 
ovate apiculate scales keeled on the back. The leaves are spatulate or oblanceolate, crenately serrate 
at the rounded or acuminate apex, on fertile branchlets fascicled, nearly sessile, three quarters of an 
inch to an inch long and one quarter of an inch broad, or on young sterile branches or vigorous shoots 
scattered, often deeply three-lobed above the middle, with rounded crenately serrate lobes deeply and 
sharply incised, contracted below into long winged petioles, and one to two inches in length, and an 
inch to an inch and a half in breadth; they are deciduous, subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green, and 
lustrous above, paler below, and reticulate-veined, with very obscure midribs and primary veins, except 
on those of vigorous shoots, which have broad and thick midribs often pilose along their lower surface. 
The stipules are linear, acute, minute, and caducous, or on vigorous shoots are foliaceous, lunate, sharply 
serrate, stalked, and often half an inch broad. The flowers, which appear from March to May after 
the leaves are grown to their full size, are produced on long slender pedicels in glabrous many-flowered 
narrow cymes with linear-lanceolate deciduous bracts and bractlets; they are half an inch across when 
expanded, with broadly obconic calyx-tubes and short nearly entire persistent calyx-lobes, minutely glan- 
dular-apiculate, and much shorter than the white undulate-margined petals, and than the styles, which are 
two to five in number. The fruit, which ripens in October, is subglobose, crowned with the remnants 
of the calyx-lobes and filaments, lustrous, bright scarlet, and one eighth of an inch in diameter, with 
thin dry flesh, nearly orbicular thin brittle-walled nutlets rounded or slightly grooved on the back, and 
minute seeds covered with a thin brown coat. 
Crategus spathulata is distributed through the coast region of the southern Atlantic states from 
southern Virginia to northern Florida, and extends westward through the Gulf states to the valley of 
the Washita River in Arkansas, where it is abundant in the neighborhood of the Hot Springs, and to 
the valley of the Colorado River in Texas. It grows in rich soil, usually near the banks of streams or 
