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 Virginia southward. 



It flowers in May. 



Tall Hawthorn. The tall hawthorn is a 



Crataegus viridis. Southern tree, 20 to 35 



feet high, whose leaf 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 at all. This variety is rare in the 

 extreme Southeastern States, but is com- 

 mon west of the Mississippi River, 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- 



Thorn, tiful, deeply cut leaf, 



Crataegus apiifoUa. gomewliat gimilar 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. 



Parsley -leaved 

 Thorn. 



