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+ CRATA:GUS odoratissima. 
Sweetest-scented Hawthorn. 
ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacex, $ Powrx. 
CRATAGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. 
C. odoratissima ; foliis tifdi pinnatifidisque ‘inciso-serratis basi cuneatis in- 
cano-tomentosis, fructibus 5-pyrenis sphericis pubescentibus, putamine 
tenui. | | a * 
C. orientalis. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. cauc. 1. 387. 
C. odoratissima, Bot. Repos. t. 590. Louden Arboret. Brit. t. 117 a. 
C. tanacetifolia 9 taurica. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. 
Folia incano-tomentosa, demum viridiora, nunquam calva; stipulis fal- 
catis integris. Pedunculi” tomentosi. Fructus lateritii, pubescentes, subpen- 
tagoni, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassitudine solitá. Y. 
A common bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea, 
and elsewhere in the Crimea. - It is described by Bieberstein 
as growing to the size of the common Hawthorn. | 
In this country it is always grafted upon that species, and 
acquires a dense round-headed habit, which diminishes its 
beauty in some degree; this is, however, abundantly com- 
pensated by its multitude of deliciously perfumed. flowers, 
and the rich clusters of red fruit. with which it is loaded 
in the autumn. It differs from C. orientalis not alone 
in the colour of its fruit; but in its leaves never becoming 
smooth, in its stipules being-small and undivided, and in 
the stones that enclose the seeds not being particularly 
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