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‘CRAT ÆGUS oxyacanthoides. 
Wedge-leaved Hawthorn: 
CU E 
ICOSANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacrz. Tribus Pomacee. 
CRATAGUS Lindl. Calycis tubus ureeolatus, limbus 5-fidus. -Petala 
patentia, orbiculata. . Ovarium 2-5-loculare.. : Styli totidem glabri. Pomum 
carnosum, ovatum, dentibus calycis vel disco inerassato-clausum, putamine 
osseo.——Frutices spinosi. Folia angulata aut dentata. Corymbi terminales. 
Bracteæ subulate, decidue. Dec. prodr. 2. 626. 
C. oxyacanthoides ; folis cuneatis obtusis apice trilobis serratis. glabris 
utrinque concoloribus, floribus: corymbosis digynis, calycibus eglandulosis, 
ovario pubescente. | 
«. flore simplici. 
C. oxyacantha. Fl. Danica, tab. 634. 
C. oxyacanthoides. Thuillier, fl. Par. 245. 
* Mespilus oxyacantha integrifolia. ‘Wallr: sched: 219.” 
Mespilus oxyacanthoides. Decand. ft. tr. 4. 433. 
C. oxyacantha, obtusata. Decand. prodr. 2. 628. 
8. flore pleno. é 
C. oxyacantha plena. Hort. a 
y. folüs pubescentibus. y 
C. triloba. Pers. ench. 2. p. 37. Dec. prodr. 2. 630. 
Folia glaberrima, cuneata, obtusa, 3-loba, serrata, nunc subspatulata, 
nunc in ramulis vegetioribus 5-loba, acuta ; stipulee semi-sagittate, dentate, 
eglandulose. Cymi laxi, corymbosi, multiflori. Pedicelli filiformes, glabri, 
ovariaque oblonga, pubescentia, eglandulosa. Flores albi, digyni, odori. 
Variable as is the European Hawthorn, it is distinguish- 
able into about three PM forms, which represent as 
many Botanical species. Of these, the first, with deeply 
pinnatifid leaves, round ¿smooth ovaria, and compact 
cymes, is the true C. oxyacantha; to which are to be 
referred as varieties, C. laciniata of Besser, the pink and 
yellow-berried Hawthorns of the Gardens, and the C. mono- 
gyna of various authors, with their Tu A second 
form is the C. fissa of some of the English Gardens, but 
not of Bosc, which has broad, deeply cut, pinnatifid 
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