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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 
erown. The branchlets are armed with scattred, brown spines 
which become gray with age. Bark dark, rather thin and 
sealy. Leave oblong, obovate or oval, 1147-2’ long, 
14,’-1’ 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 1/- 
2/3’ in diameter, in few flowered corymbs; sepals entire or 
somewhat serrate, stamens 20, anthers rose red. Fruit 
ripens in autumn, short oblong 14’-14’ long, dull green, tinged 
with red, with thin, greenish flesh. 
In low wet woods and stream borders in the valley of the 
Sabine River. 
