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of Tennessee to Texas. In- New England it looks 

 more treelike, and attains a larger size than the othei- 

 Ameriean thorns.* 



Blackthorn. The blackthorn has smaller fruit 

 Cratrngus tomentosa. (^q\i an inch long), ovoid in shape 



and dull-red in color. The leaves have a very doubt- 

 fully divided outline — that is, some of 

 them are so slightly incised that they 

 can hardly be called divided. They 

 are hght olive-green, and turn dull 

 orange-red in the autumn. The 

 flowers are very ill-scented, and 

 appear two or three weeks later 

 than those of the foregoing va- 

 riety. This thorn grows from 10 

 to 20 feet high, and is distributed from eastern N'ew 

 York westward to Michigan and Missouri, and south- 

 westward to Georgia, Tennessee, and eastern Texas. 

 It is not very common. 



Dotted-fruited Tlie dotted-fruited thorn has a small 



Thorn, jg^f (perhaps an inch and three quar- 



Crat<^gus punctata. ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.^j^ ^ ^^^ divided, but 



is irregularly toothed ; it is pale, dull green. The 

 fruit is an inch in diameter, round, more or less white 

 dotted, and generally red, but often deep yellow. This 



Blackthorn. 



* Vide Silva of North America, C. S. Sargent. 



