PARSLEY HAW (Cratcegui apiifolia, Michx.). 15 to N feet. Irregular tree, with angular, twisted branches, horizontally spread. Thorns stout, straight, brown, 1 to 11 inch. s long. Bark brown, checked, scaly. Wood hard, brown, satiny lustre. Leaves round or broadly ovate, sharply cut-toothed, and cleft to the midrib, almost, into 5 to 7 narrow lobes, imitating parsley leaves more than the usual hawthorn leaf does. Flowers March, April, in dense, hairy corymbs;
corolla inch across; stamens 20, with rosy anthers; styles 1 to 3. Fruit October, persistent for weeks; oblong, small, scarlet, pea-like; nutlets 1 to 3, grooved and ridged; flesh thin, yellow, juicy. Dist.: Coast region, Virginia to Florida; west to Arkansas and Texas. Fine ornamental species, with abun dant fruit, foliage, and bloom.