PARSLEY HAW (Cratcegus apiifolia, Michx.). 15 to 20 feet. 

 Irregular tree, with angular, twisted branches, horizontally 

 spread. Thorns stout, straight, brown, 1 to 1^ inches 

 long. Bark brown, checked, scaly. Wood hard, brown, 

 with satiny lustre. Leaves round or broadly ovate, sharply 

 cut-toothed, and cleft to the midrib, almost, into 5 to 7 narrow 

 lobes, imitating parsley leaves more than the usual hawthorn 

 leaf does. Flowers March, April, in dense, hairy corymbs; 

 corolla ^ inch across; stamens 20, with rosy anthers; styles 

 1 to 3. Fruit October, persistent for weeks; oblong, small, 

 scarlet, pea-like; nutlets 1 to 3, grooved and ridged; flesh thin, 

 yellow, juicy. Dist.: Coast region, Virginia to Florida; west 

 to Arkansas and Texas. Fine ornamental species, with abun- 

 dant fruit, foliage, and bloom. 



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