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toothed above. No glands. Flowers medium-sized, 14 in., single or 
double, white, rose, or pink-red, numerous in corymbs. In spring. 
Fruit coral-red, 144 in.; ripe in autumn. A small tree or shrub, fine for 
lawn; from Europe; also escaped in some places. 
4. Crat®gus apiifédlia, Michx. (ParsLey- 
LEAVED THORN.) Leaves small, ovate, with a 
broad truncate or heart-shaped base, pinnatifid 
into 5 to 7 crowded, irregularly toothed lobes; 
white and soft-downy when young, smoothish 
when grown; petioles slender. Flowers me- —#— 
dium-sized, 14 in., many in a corymb, white. C. aplifélia. 
May toJune. Fruit small, 44 in., coral-red, ripe in autumn. A hand- 
some, low (10 to 20 ft. high), spreading tree, with flexible branches 
and white-downy twigs. Virginia and south, in moist woods. 
5. Crateégus spathulata, Michx. (Spatu- 
LATE-LEAVED THORN.) Leaves almost ever- 
green, thick, shining, spatulate, crenate to- 
pf z ward the apex and nearly sessile, those on the 
young downy branches somewhat cut or lobed. 
Flowers small, 14 in.,in large clusters. May. 
Fruit small, 14 in., bright red; ripe in Octo- 
ber. A small tree, 12 to 25 ft. high; Virginia 
— and south. 
C. spathulata. 
6. Crategus cordata, Ait. (WasHING- 
Ton THORN.) Leaves broadly triangular- 
ovate, somewhat heart-shaped, thin, deep 
shining green, smooth, often 3- to 5-lobed 
and serrate, on slender petioles. Flowers 
y small, 3 in., 
many in termi- 
nal corymbs, 
white. May, 
June. Fruit scarlet, about the size of 
peas; ripe in September. A compact, 
close-headed, small tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, 
with many slender thorns. Virginia, 
Kentucky, and southward. Sometimes 
planted in the North for hedges. 
C. cordata. 
7. Crategus viridis, L. (Tatu Haw- 
THORN.) Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 
