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WASHINGTON THORN. 



Valley of the upper Potomac river, Virginia, southward along the Alleghany mountains to northern Georgia 

 and Alabama, extending west through eastern and middle Kentucky and Tennessee to the valley of the lower 

 Wabash river, Illinois. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk rarely 0.30 meter in diameter ; generally along banks of 

 treams. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, brown tinged with red, 

 the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.7293 ; ash, 0.46. 



Formerly widely planted as a hedge plant. 



131. Crataegus apiifolia, Michaux, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 287. Persoon, Syn. ii, 38. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, 336. Nnttall, Genera, i, 305. Elliott, Sk. i, 552. De Candolle, Prodr. ii, 

 627. Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 599. Audubon, Birds, t. 192. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 112. Hooker, Companion Bot. Mag. i,25. Torrey 

 & Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 467. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 824, f. 588, 589 & t. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 212. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 160. 

 Darby, Bot. S. States, 306. Rcemer, Syn. Mon. iii, 121. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1658, 252. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 127. Wood, 

 Cl. Book, 331 ; Bot. & Fl. 111. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 159 ; Hall's PI. Texas, 9. Young, Bot. Texas, 257. Kaleniczenko in 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, xlviii, 29. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 14. 



C. oxyacantha, Walter, Fl. Caroliniana, 147 [not Linnaeus]. 



Mespilus apiifolia, Marshall, Arbustum, 89. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 68. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 508. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 67. 



Mespilus monogyna, var. apiifolia, Koch, Dendrologie, i, 160. 



C. OXyacantha, var. apiifolia, Regel in Act. Hort. St. Petersburg, 119. 



PARSLEY HAW. 



Southern Virginia, southward near the coast to about latitude 28", extending west through the Gulf states to 

 outhern Arkansas and the valley of the Trinity river, Texas. 



A small tree, rarely 6 to 9 meters in height, with a slender stem rarely exceeding 0.08 to 0.10 meter in diameter, 

 or more often a low shrub, throwing up many stems from the ground ; low, rich soil, reaching its greatest 

 development in the pine-barren hummocks of central Florida. 



Wood heavy, hard, very close-grained, compact, susceptible of a beautiful polish ; medullary rays thin, very 

 obscure ; color, bright brown tinged with red or rose, the sap-wood much lighter ; specific gravity, 0.7453 ; ash,_ 

 0.97. 



132. Crataegus spathulata, Michaux, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. i, 228. Persoon, Syn. ii, 37. Barton, Compend. Fl. Philadelph. i, 226. Elliott, Sk.i, 552. Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 1261. 

 Don, Miller's Diet, ii, 599. Hooker, Companion Bot. Mag. i, 25. Gray in Lindley, Bot. Reg. xxiii under 1. 1957; Manual N. States, 



5 ed. 159. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 112. Torrey &, Gray, Fl. N. America, i, 467. Loudon, Arboretum, ii, 825, f. 591 & t. Eaton & 

 Wright, Bot. 212. Dietrich, Syn. iii, 160. Darby, Bot. S. States, 306. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 126. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. 

 Arkansas, 359. Wood, Cl. Book, 331; Bot. & Fl. 111. Young, Bot. Texas, 257. Kaleniczenko in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, 



' xlviii, 31. Ridgway in Am. Nat. vi, 728. 



Mespilus Azarolus, Marshall, Arbustum, 89 [not Linnajus]. 



Mespilus spathulata, Poiret, Suppl. iv, 68. Desfoutaines, Hist. Arb. ii, 157. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 507. Spach, Hist. Veg. ii, 

 66. Koch, Dendrologie, i, 137. 



C. microcarpa, Lindley, Bot. Reg. xxii.t. 1846. 

 Phcenopyrum spathulatum, Rosmer, Syn. Mon. iii, 355. 



SMALL-FRUITED HAW. 



Virginia, southward to the Chattahoochee region of western Florida, west through the Gulf states to the valley 

 of the Washita river, Arkansas (Hot Springs, Letterman), and the Colorado river, Texas. 



A small tree, 6 to 8 meters in height, with a trunk 0.20 to 0.25 meter in diameter, or often reduced to a low 

 shrub; margins of streams and prairies; common and reaching its greatest development along the bottom lands of 

 western Louisiana and eastern Texas. 



Wood heavy, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact ; medullary rays very numerous, obscure ; color, light 

 brown or red. the sap-wood lighter; specific gravity, 0.7159; ash, 0.66. 



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