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Mespilus odoratissima. Sweet-scented 

 Hawthorn. 



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Generic Character. 

 Cal. 5-fidus. Petala 5. Bacca infera 5-sperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Mespilus odoratissima ; foliis trapeziformibus utrinque 

 pubescentibus pinnatifidis : laciniis inciso-dentatis : 

 dentibus integerrimis. 



Mespilus odoratissima; foliis utrinque pubescentibus pin- 

 natifidis : laciniis incisis. Bot. Repos. 590. 



Crataegus orientalis; foliis subtrifidis inciso-serratis hirsutis, 

 floribus pentagynis, calycinis segmentis acutiusculis 

 reflexis hirsutis. Flor. taur. cauc. 1. p. 387. et. 3. 

 p. 322. 



Cratjsgus orientalis. Pall. Ind. taur. 



Mespilus orientalis. Habl. taur. 



Azaroli species ramis spinescentibus, foliis utrinque albido- 

 lanatis, fructibus rubris. Tourn. itin. ed. gallic. 2. 

 p. 172. 



The number of styles by which Linnaeus distinguished 

 Crataegus, Sorbus, Mespilus, and Pyrus, being found quite 

 too uncertain for the purpose, Sir James E. Smith has ex- 

 cluded the two former and referred the species to one or 

 other of the two latter according to their fruit. 



But Mr. Lindley in a paper lately published in the 13th 

 volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, has 

 restored the genus Crataegus, finding characters indepen- 

 dent of the styles, sufficient to establish what appears to be 



