1874 



CRATAEGUS platyphylla. 



Broad-leaved Thorn. 



ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pomf,^. 

 CRATMGUS.— Supra, vol. \3. fol. 1128. 



C. platyphylla ; foliis pinnatifidis basi truncatis cuneatisque lacinils apice serratis 

 subtus ramulisque pubescentlbus, stipulis semicordatis dentatis integrisque, 

 cymis villosis, pomis oblongis nigris pubescentibus tripyrenis, laciniis calycis 

 erectis integris. 



C. platyphylla. Supra, fol. 1128. in textu. 



C. fissa. Hort. nee Boscii. 



Certainly in foliage and elegance of general appearance 

 this is the handsomest of the European Hawthorns. It grows 

 like an exceedingly vigorous Oxyacantha, spreading its grace- 

 fully bending arms on all sides ; its leaves are a deep rich 

 green, it is loaded with large masses of snow-white blossoms 

 long after the common hawthorn is flowerless, and it retains its 

 vigour till late in the autumn, so that the rich colour of its 

 blackish purple fruit is not impaired in effect by the fading 

 tints of the foliage. 



That this is some European or North-Asiatic plant, can- 

 not well be doubted, and yet it is not to be traced in books, 

 unless it is the Cr. melanocarpa of Bieberstein ; but that 



* See folio llGl. 



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