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3. Crataegus edita Sargent. A tree sometimes reaching a 

 height of 40 and trunk diameter of 1, but usually smaller. 

 The branches are stout, horizontal and form a wide, rounded 

 crown. The branchlets are armed with scattred. brown spines 

 which become gray with age. Bark dark, rather thin and 

 scaly. Leave oblong, obovate or oval, l%'-2' long, 

 %'-!' wide, smooth and dark, lustrous green above, paler and 

 somewhat pubescent along the veins below, serrate above the 



Fig. 33. Crataegus spathulata. 



middle, entire and wedge-shaped at base. Flowers are %'- 

 2/3' in diameter, in few flowered corymbs; sepals entire or 

 somewhat serrate, stamens 20, anthers rose red. Fruit 

 ripens in autumn, short oblong %'-%' long, dull green, tinged 

 with red, with thin, greenish flesh. 



In low wet woods and stream borders in the valley of the 

 Sabine River. 



