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of Tennessee to Texas. In New England it looks 

 more treelike, and attains a larger size than the other 

 American thorns.* 



Blackthorn. The blackthorn has smaller fruit 

 Gratasgus tomentosa. (] m ]f an i nc h long), Ovoid in shape 



and dull-red in color. The leaves have a very doubt- 

 fully divided outline that is, some of 

 them are so slightly incised that they 

 can hardly be called divided. Tbey 

 are light olive-green, and turn dull 

 orange-red in the autumn. The 

 flowers are very ill-scented, and 

 appear two or three weeks later 

 than those of the foregoing va- 

 riety. This thorn grows from 10 

 to 20 feet high, and is distributed from eastern New 

 York westward to Michigan and Missouri, and south- 

 westward to Georgia, Tennessee, and eastern Texas. 

 It is not very common. 



Dotted-fruited The dotted -fruited thorn has a small 



Thorn. ] ea f (perhaps an inch and three quar- 



Cratogu. punctata. ^ ](mg) ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ])ut 



is irregularly toothed ; it is pale, dull green. The 

 fruit is an inch in diameter, round, more or less white 

 dotted, and generally red, but often deep yellow. This 



Blackthorn. 



Vide Silva of North America, C. S. Sargent. 



