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2. Crataegus spathulata Michx. 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 
erown. The branchlets are smooth or armed with straight, 
brown spines 17-114’ 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, 1’-2’ long, 1’-114’ wide. Flowers 
¥,’ in diameter on slender pedicels in many flowered corymbs; 
ealyx lobes triangular, stamens about 20, anthers rose col- 
ored. Fruit ripening in autumn, globose to sub-globose 14’ 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. 
