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CRAT^GUS* heterophylla, 



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VariouS'kaved Hawthorn. 



ICOSANDRIA DUPENTAGYNIA, 



Nat. ord. Rosace^e* 



CEATJEGUS. Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. 



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C. heterophylla ; foliis lucidis tard6 deciduis lanceolatis cuneatis apice 

 dentatis, pinnatifidisve, tubo calycis fusiformi, cymis multifloris, floribus 

 monogynis, stipulis maximis pinnatifidis, 

 Mespilus constantinopolitana. Hort. 



C. heterophylla, Flugge ann. mus. 12. t. 38. Decand, prodr, 2. 629. 

 C. aronia, Watson dendrolog, 165. not of Willd. 



Arbor mediocris, staturd quam C. oxyacanthcB, proceriore. Folia lucida, 

 glaberrima, tardh decidua ; prope injiorescentiam et in ramulis vetustis 

 lanceolafa, integerrima, v. ohlonga, cuneataj apice tridentata ; in ramulis 

 vegetioribus pinnatifidis^ serratis, subcuneatis, stipulis maximis, pinnatifidis, 

 semi-cordatis. Cymse multifiorm, congestce, glaberrimce, Calycis tubus 

 linear i-ohlongus, limbus brevi-campayiulatus, denies acuminata eglandulostE. 

 Petala denticulafa, alba. Stylus crassus, simplex, Fructus nigri, ovales 

 V. fiusiformes, limbo calycis persistente coronati. 



A beautiful kind of Hawthorn, very little known in our 

 English Gardens, although it has existed in collections in 

 this country for many years. It is by far the handsomest 

 of the white-flowered species, and is remarkable for its 

 black berries in the autumn. 



In M. DecandoUe's Prodromus, the native country is 

 supposed to be North America ; but if we consider the 

 little affinity that it has with any known North American 

 species, and its close resemblance to C. maroccana, it 



* The K^tirctiya^ of the Greeks, — said to have derived its name from 

 xgaVoj, strength, in allusion to the toughness of its wood, — is supposed to 

 have been the Azarole. Heterophylla is from crfgaj, various, and ^v>^Xof, 

 a leaf. 



