136 FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES. 



has a similar fruit, and a singularly long, dark-green 

 leaf, thick, and almost evergreen. This tree or shrub 

 grows sometimes 20 feet high, and is found (it is not 



very common) from Yirginia southward. 



It flowers in May. 



Tall Hawthorn.- The tal1 hawthorn is a 



Crataegus viridis. Southern tree, 20 to 35 

 Crataegus Uarshallii. feet ^ whoge ^ 



is most frequently undivided, and rather 

 pointed at each end. Its bright-red fruit 

 is ovoid, and not over a quarter of an inch 

 broad. The branches bear a few large 

 thorns or none. This variety is rare in 

 the extreme Southeastern States, but is 

 common west of the Mississippi, from 



St. Louis southward to the Colorado River, Texas. 



It grows beside streams or in low, rich soil. 



Parsley-leaved The parsley-leaved thorn has a beau- 



tiful, deeply cut leaf, 

 somewhat similar to 



that of the English hawthorn ; the 



divisions are irregularly toothed and 



crowded together. The flowers ap- 

 pear in late May; they are white, 



about half an inch in diameter, and 



there are many in a cluster. The fruit is rather 



long ovoid in shape and less than half an inch in 



Tall Hawthorn. 



Thorn. 



Crataegus apiifolia. 



Parsley-leaved 

 Thorn. 



