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been occupied most of the time with other researches that seemed 

 easier or more important. Only the more easily recognized species 

 therefore are listed below; but a reader who is sufficiently inter- 

 ested can get information about others from the works of Mohr, 

 Small and Sargent, already mentioned. 



The easily recognized species are about as follows : 



Crataegus viridis, L. (C arborcscciis, Kll.?) 



An upright thorny tree, sometimes a foot in diameter and -iU 

 feet tall, with fluted trunk and smoothish scaly bark. Probably 

 our largest haw tree. Blooms in March and April. Fruit small 

 and scarcely edible. According to Prof. Sargent the wood is 

 heavy, hard, compact, and takes a fine polish; but I find no record 

 of its ever having been utilized in Alabama. 



Grows in damj) flatwoods and alluvial bottoms, mostly in the 



coastal plain. 



IB. Madison. Limestone and Morgan Counties. 

 3. Jefferson, Shelby and Talladega Counties. 

 6A. Chilton and Elmore Counties. 

 6C. Montgomery County. 



7. Hale (Mohr), Sumter, Dallas, Montgomery and Bullock Counties. 



8. Pike County. 



9. Sumter Countv. 



low. Wilcox Countv (Bucklev). 

 11 (?). Clarke County (Mohr). 



13. Conecuh River swamp southeast of Brewton. 



14. Occasional in upper part of the delta. 



Crataegus spathulata, Mx. (Sugar) Haw. 



A small tree with crooked and fluted trunk, usually branching 

 low down, and smooth bark, cinnamon-red in patches where freshly 

 exposed by the scaling off of the thin light brown outer layers. 

 (In this respect it resembles the bark of the cultivated crepe myr- 

 tle, and more remotely that of the sycamore.) Flowers small and 

 numerous, in April and May. Fruit abundant and showy, but too 

 small to eat. 



This haw is sometimes cultivated for ornament, but it has no 

 other use as far as known, except perhaps as food for birds. 



Grows mostly in dry woods, preferring clayey soil, which may 

 be flat and "poorly drained", as in the case of the crab-apple. Not 

 abundant in Alabama. 



