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2. Crataegus spathulata Miehx. Small-fruited Thorn. A 

 small tree 18-25 high and trunk diameter of 8'-10' with up- 

 right, spreading branches which form a rather wide, rounded 

 crown. The branchlets are smooth or armed with straight, 

 brown spines I'-l 1 // long. Bark gray or brown, smooth or 

 somewhat scaly. Leaves shaped like a spathula, rounded -and 

 sometimes 3-lobed at the apex, serrate except at the base, dark 



Fig. 32. Crataegus apiifolia. 



green above, paler below, l'-2' long, I'-l 1 /-/ wide. Flowers 

 %' in diameter on slender pedicels in many flowered corymbs ; 

 calyx lobes triangular, stamens about 20, anthers rose col- 

 ored. Fruit ripening in autumn, globose to sub-globose %' in 

 diameter, bright scarlet with 3-5 nutlets and thin, dry mealy 

 flesh. 



Virginia to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas. In 

 Texas it extends to the valley of the Colorado River. It occurs 

 abundantly in the eastern portion of the state. 



