. ToOANDRIA. DIGYNTA. 
7. CRATEGUS, ‘L. (Hawthorn.) 
~ Cative 5-cleft. Petals 5. Styles 1 to 5. Frnit 
Peet berry, or small apple 
Reto 5 bony seeds, or nuts, . ——- 
é Small spiny trees or ‘sthibs; leaves alternate eiee. 
undivided or lobed; peduncles many-flowered, mostly ter. 
_ Minak and. corymbose, rarely solitary lateral or terminal; 
ers white sometimes rosaceous; fruit scarlet or yeliow. 
Speeses. 1.C. apiifolia. Flowers and berries small, 
» the latter scarlet." Preferable to every other species in 
North America for hedges, remaining green very late in | 
the antu being also perfectly hardy and spreading 
low s®as to pr oduce a close fence, similiar to that afford. 
ed C. Oxyaca n the north of Europe, a species which 
in the United + brives badly and grows up erect so as 
to be untit for close hedges as imits native soil. 2. spa- 
thulata. 3. coccinea. This fee species frequently becomes 
asmall tree and produces abundance of fruit. 4. populifo- 
lia. 5. pyrifolia..6. elliptica. 7. glandulosa. 8 flava. Fruit 
large, not very abundant, but of ait exquisite favor, = 
lar to that of the finest upple. 9. parvifolia. 
ta. 11%. Crus galli. ~< Se 
Principally a North American genus, at the same time 
+ there ave 3 species in Japan, 6 in Europe, 1 in the! 
2 in India, and 2in the northern parts of. Africa, 
also 2 species said to be indigenous to Peru. 
588. SORBUS. L. (Mountain Ash.) 
 Calia 5-cleft. — Petals5. Styles 2 or 8, 
_ Berry favinaceous, _ inferi S. 
| Seeds cartilaginous. % 
2 _ Trees with alternate leaves, y 
d, deeply 
= 
toothed or 
1 S. americana, | Apples. ily 
about half the size of those of Pyrue « 
pibaning ee ae eT ee 
