112 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ROSACEZ. 
sas and the valley of the Trinity River in Texas. It is nowhere very common, and usually grows near 
the borders of streams and swamps in low rich soil, or in Florida on hummocks in the Pine barrens, 
where it attains its greatest size. 
_ The wood of Crategus apiifolia is heavy, hard, very close-grained, and susceptible of receiving a 
beautiful polish ; it contains many thin very obscure medullary rays, and is light brown tinged with red 
or rose, with lighter colored sapwood. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood i is 0.74538, a 
cubic foot weighing 46.45 pounds. 
The earliest account of Crategus apiifolia appears in the Flora Caroliniana of Walter, who mis- 
took it for the European Hawthorn. It appears to have been introduced into English gardens early in 
the present century, but, although the form of its delicate leaves and the abundance of its flowers 
make it one of the most attractive of the American Hawthorns, it is still an extremely rare plant in 
cultivation. : 
1 Loudon, A7b. Brit. ii. 824. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puare CLXXXVIII. Crarmeus arirozia. 
A flowering branch, natural size. 
A flower-bud, enlarged. 
Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. A fruit with part of the flesh removed, showing the nutlets, enlarged. 
. A nutlet, natural size. 
. A nutlet divided transversely, enlarged. 
. A leaf from a vigorous shoot with stipules, natural size. 
WHAAATPR WN 
. A winter branchlet, natural size. 
