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* CRATAGUS Arónia. 
The Aronia Thorn. 
ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosacEz, Subord. POMES. 
CRATZGUS.—Supra, vol. 13. fol, 1128. 
C. Aronia; subinermis ramulis tomentosis, foliis cuneatis pinnatifidis trifidisque 
laciniis latis linearibus apice sub-incisis supra lucidis subtus glabriusculis 
glaucescentibus, corymbis subsessilibus, fructibus (armeniacis) subangulatis 
dipyrenis, putamine crassissimo, ae | i 
Mespilus Aronia. Willd. enum. Suppl. 
Cr. Aronia. Dec. Prodr. 2. 629.. Loudon Arb. Britann. p. 827. fig. 593. 
Mespilus orientalis apii folio subtus hirsuto Pocock. Travels in the East, '189. 
t. 85. fide Willd. 
Arbor mediocris, comà conicá subapertá, ramis rigidis, nullo modo 
flexuosis. Folia formå variant ut in omnibus ferê speciebus mos est ; semper 
tamen circumscriptionem habent cuneatam ; tridentata sunt, trifida, pin- 
natifidaque, laciniis integerrimis emarginatis incisisque ; facie superiore 
. sepius glabrescunt, subtus pube quádam pagina obducitur. Flores alb 
speciosi. 
Said to be a native of the Levant, I presume upon the 
authority of Pococke's Travels, which I have not at hand to 
consult. Specimens from Grammont near Montpellier are 
before me, and they are considered wild by Professor Delile, 
who gathered them. This I suspect is the species which 
yields the fruit called at Montpellier Pommettes à deux closes, 
and not C. Azarolus. , 4 
It is very near C. Azarolus, of which indeed it might be 
considered a mere variety, if it were not so much more hardy, 
nearly destitute of pubescence, and constantly furnished with 
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