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CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 



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toothed above. No glands. Flowers medium-sized, y z in., single or 

 double, white, rose, or pink-red, numerous in corymbs. In spring. 

 Fruit coral-red, \/ z in. ; ripe in autumn. A small tree or shrub, fine for 

 lawn ; from Europe ; also escaped in some places. 



4. Crat&gus apiifolia, 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, y z in., many in a corymb, white. C.apiif&Ua. 

 May to June. Fruit small, % 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. Crats&gus spathulata, Michx. (SPATU- 

 LATE-LEAVED THORN.) Leaves almost ever- 

 green, thick, shining, spatulate, crenate to- 

 ward the apex and nearly sessile, those on the 

 young downy branches somewhat cut or lobed. 

 Flowers small, y z in., in large clusters. May. 

 Fruit small, J^ in., bright red; ripe in Octo- 

 ber. A small tree, 12 to 25 ft. high ; Virginia 

 and south. 



C. spathulata. 



6. Cratsegus 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 

 small, \ in., 

 many in termi- 

 nal corymbs, 



white. May, c - cord&ta - 



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. 



7. Cratsegus viridis, L. (TALL HAW- 

 THORN.) Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 



