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* CRATAEGUS tanacetifolia. 



Tansy-leaved Hawthorn. 



ICOSANDllIA DI-PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^. 

 CRATMGUS.-Supra, vol. 13. fol. 112«. 



C. tanacetifolia ; foliis pinnatifidis glanduloso-serratis pubescentibus basi cu- 

 neatis laciniis linearibus, bracteis foliaceis glandulosls pectinatis sub fructu 

 persistentibus, fructibus solitariis sessilibus depresso-sphaericis pubescenti- 

 bus, putamine crassissimo. 



C. tanacetifolia. Pers. synops. 2. 38. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. Loudon 

 Arhor. Britami. t. 117, b. 



Mespilus tanacetifolia. Smith Exot. Bot. t. 85. 



M. orientalis, tanaceti folio villoso, magno fructu pentagono e viridi flavescente. 

 Tourn. corolL 44. Voyage v. 2. 171. t. 172. 



Folia pubescentia, virescentia, parum canescentia, dentibus argutis apice 

 glanduligeris, nunquam calva ; stipulis semi-sagittatis serratis. Flores 

 corymbosi subsessiles. Fructus solitarii, sessiles, lutei, depressi, sub-penta- 

 goni, bracteis quibusdam foliaceis glanduloso-pectinatis persistentibus suf- 

 fulti, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassissimo. 



This is obviously known from Cr. odoratissima and orien- 

 talis both by its yellow solitary sessile fruit, to which a 

 small number of leafy bracts adhere irregularly, but also 

 by its regularly pinnatifid leaves, the fine toothings of 

 which are all tipped with a gland. Like those species this 

 is hardy and very handsome ; it is multiplied by grafting 

 on the common hedge Hawthorn. 



Sir James Smith has the following observations upon it 

 in Rees's Cyclopaedia. " Native of all the higher mountains 

 of Greece. A very desirable shrub for plantations, on ac- 



* See fol. 1161, 



