474 ICOSANDRIA. DI-PENTAGYNIA. agrimONia* 



2..A. parvijlora Ait.: hairy; leaves interruptedly pin- 

 nate, with the terminal one sessile ; leaflets numerous, mostly 

 linear-lanceolate, incisely serrate ; spike virgate ; flowers on 

 very short pedicels ; petals once and a half the length of the 

 calyx ; fruit roundish, divaricately hispid. W i lid. Spec, IL 

 p. 876. A i t. Kew. 11. p. 1 30. Pursh Fl. I. p. 236. 



Flowers small, yellow. 



IIab. In woods on the sides of hills. Pennsylvania to Virginia. 



Pursh. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. August. 

 This species I have never seen ; what is so named in the 



Catalogue of New- York Plants being merely a variety of A , 



Eufiatoria, 



318. CRAT^GUS. L. 



Calyx superior, 5-cleft. Petals 5. Styles 1 — 5. 

 Fruit pulp}', closed, with from 2 — 5 1-seeded nuts. 

 Gen. pL 854. Nu 1 1. Gen. I. p. 303. Ju s s. p. 

 335. La?n. III. t. 433. Nat. Ord. Rosacea 

 Jiiss. Hawthorn. 



1. C. coccinea L. : thorny ; leaves on long petioles, 

 ovate, subcordate, acutely lobed and serrate, smooth ; pe- 

 tioles and the pubescent calyx glandular ; flowers pentagy- 

 iious. Willd, Spec. II. p. 1000. Jit. ^«o. II. p. 167. 

 Mich. FLI.[i.'2BS. P ur s h Fl. I. ^. 337. Elliott 

 Sk> I. p. 553. 



A large shrub with smooth virgate branches, bearing a few long 

 subaxillary spines. Leaves nearly 3 inches long, and 2 or 

 more broad, slightly and very acutely lobed, truncate, and 

 often subcordate at the base ; petiole an inch in length, glan- 

 dular, not pubescent. Mowers in corymbs, terminating the 

 short young branches. Stipules of the corymbs linear-lanceo- 

 late, very glandular. Calyx smooth when old ; segments lan- 

 ceolate, denticulate and glandular. Petals roundish-ovate, 

 white. Stamens about 20. Styles 5, as long as the stamens ; 

 stigmas capitate. Fruit about one-third of an inch in diame- 

 ter, red, eatable. 



Hab. In dry woods and in hedges. May. 



2. C. cordata Ait, : thorny; leaves cordate-ovate, pin- 

 natifid, lobed and angled, smooth ; petioles and calyx without 

 glands; flowers pentagynous. JVilld. S/?cc. II. p. 1000. 

 excl. syn. PValt, Ait, Kew. 11. p. 168. Elliott Sk. 

 I. p. 554. C. populi/Qlia Pursh FL I. p. 337. C. Phce- 

 nopyruni L. Supp. 254. 



A large shrub. Leaves with 3, 5, or 7 lobes, acuminate, acutely 



