. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . Fig. 32. Crataegus apiifolia. green above, paler below, l-2 long, V-IY/ wide. Flowers% in diameter on slender pedicels in many flowered corymbs;calyx lobes triangular, stamens about 20, anthers rose col-ored. Fruit ripening in autumn, globose to sub-globose Vs ^^diameter, bright scarlet with 3-5 nutlets and thin, dry mealyflesh. Virginia to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas. InTexas it extends to the valley of the Colorado River. It occursabundantly in the eastern portion of the state. 108 Bulletin o
. Trees of Texas; an illustrated manual of the native and introduced trees of the state . Fig. 32. Crataegus apiifolia. green above, paler below, l-2 long, V-IY/ wide. Flowers% in diameter on slender pedicels in many flowered corymbs;calyx lobes triangular, stamens about 20, anthers rose col-ored. Fruit ripening in autumn, globose to sub-globose Vs ^^diameter, bright scarlet with 3-5 nutlets and thin, dry mealyflesh. Virginia to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas. InTexas it extends to the valley of the Colorado River. It occursabundantly in the eastern portion of the state. 108 Bulletin of the University of Texas 3. Crataegus edita Sargent. A tree sometimes reaching aheight of 40° and trunk diameter of 1°, but usually branches are stout, horizontal and form a wide, roundedcrown. The branchlets are armed with scattred, brown spineswhich become gray with age. Bark dark, rather thin andscaly. Leave oblong, obovate or oval, iy2-2 long,%-! wide, smooth and dark, lustrous green above, paler andsomewhat pubescent along the veins below, serrate above the. Fig. Crataegus spathulata. middle, entire and wedge-shaped at base. Flowers are %-2/3 in diameter, in few flowered corymbs; sepals entire orsomewhat serrate, stamens 20, anthers rose red. Fruitripens in autumn, short oblong ^-Vs long, dull green, tingedwith red, with thin, greenish flesh. In low wet woods and stream borders in the valley of theSabine River. The Trees of Texas im 4. Crataegus brachycantha Sarg. and Engelni. A tree18^-25 high with trunk diameter of 8-10. branches uprif^-ht,spreading to fonn a rather broad rounded cro^Yn; branchletsarmed with straight light brown spines V-IV^ long. Barkdark brown and rath«^r deeply fissured on mature trunks,light brown on younger twigs. Leaves lanceolate-oblong toOA-ate, serrate above the middle, l-2 long %-! >ide, darkgreen above, paler beneatli. Flowers in many flowered cor-ymbs. Fruit Iipenina in August, bright blue, V^-^/-/ indiameter. Northwestern
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