POPULAR FLORA. 



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Moss R., 7?. ceniifoHa, van muscbsa. 

 White R., H. alba. 

 Yellow R., Ji. luiea. 



CnixA R., R. Indlcn. 



Cherokee R. at the South, R. Icevif/ata. 



MuLTiELOKA R., R. viuliijldra. 



Hawthorn. Cratltcjus. 



Calyx -with a globular or near-shaped tube coherent with the 2- to 5-celled ovar}-, making a pome 

 with as many one-seeded stones. Petals 5, roundish. Styles 2 to 5. Thorny small trees or shrubs. 

 Flowers in spring, mostly in corymbs, white, or with a red variety of the cultivated. 



1. English Hawthokx (or White Thorn). Leaves obovate, Avith a Avedge-shaped base, lobed 



and cut; styles 2 or 3; fruit small, coral red. Cult, for hedges and ornament. C. Oxyactiniha. 



2. Washington H. Leaves broadly ovate, truncate or a little heart-shaped at the base, often cleft or 



cut; styles 5; fruits coral-red, not larger than peas. S. C. conlata. 



8. Scaulet-fkuited H. Smooth; leaves round-ovate, thin, toothed or cut, on slender stalks; fruit 



scarlet, oval, ^' in diameter. C. coccinea. 



4. Peak H. (or Blackthorn). Downy, at least when young ; leaves thickish, oval, ovate, or 



wedge-obovate, narrowed into a short or margined footstalk; flowers large; fruit large, crimson, or 

 orange-red, eatable. C. iomentosa. 



5. CocKSPUR H. Smooth; leaves wedge-obovate or inversely lance-shaped, merely toothed above the 



middle, thick, shining; fruit dark red; thorns very long. C. Crus-gdlli. 



6. Summer H. Rather downy; leaves obovate or wedge-shaped, often cut; flowers few (2 to 6); 



fruit rather pear-shaped, yellowish or reddish. S. C.Jinva. 



Apple. Pyrus, § Mains. 



1. Common Apple. Leaves ovate, serrate, downy beneath ; flowers white tinged with pink. Every- 



where cultivated. P- Mains. 



2. Siberian Crab- A. Leaves ovate, serrate, smooth ; calyx smooth. Cult, occasionally. P.haccata. 



3. American Crab-A. Leaves broadly ovate or heart-shaped, cut-toothed or somewhat lobed, 



smoothish; flowers rose-color, sweet-scented; fruit greenish, fragrant (Fig. 361). Common. W. 



P. covonaria. 



Mountain-Ash or Rowan Tree. Pyrus, § Sorbus. 



Both the wild and the foreign species are planted for the beauty of their bright scarlet fruits, in broad 

 compound cymes, ripe in autumn. Fl. white, summer. 



1, American ^L Leaflets 13 to 15, lance-shaped, taper-pointed, smooth. Wild, N. P. Americana. 



2. European ^L Leaflets shorter, broader, paler, and not pointed ; fruit larger. P. aucuparia. 



Quince. Cydbnia. 



1. Common Quince. Flowers single at the tips of the branches, white; lobes of the calyx leaf-like 



and downy, as well as the ovate entire leaves ; fruit pear-shaped. Cult. C. vulyavis. 



2. Japan Quince. Shrub, hardly of the same genus, for the flowers are on side spurs of the thorny 



branches, earlier than the smooth leaves; calyx top-shaped, with short lobes; petals large and red; 

 fruit like a small apple, very hard. Cultivated for ornament. C. Jaj>6nica. 



