count of its highly-scented corymbose flowers, and yellow 

 fruit, which resembles a small apple, and has the scent of 

 one. By culture and grafting, it promises to become an 

 acquisition to our tables. From the description in Diosco- 

 rides of his ixeairiKov, ' a spinous tree, with leaves like 

 hawthorn, fruit like a little apple, sweet, with three hard 

 seeds,' this should seem, as the number of seeds varies, to 

 be the very plant; while his ixeairiXov erepou, from Italy, 

 ' a tree like an apple tree, but with smaller leaves, and a 

 round eatable fruit, with a broad depression, slightly astrin- 

 gent, and long in ripening,' can only be our common garden 

 Mespilus germanica. Tournefort did not observe the thorns 

 of the Cr. tanacetifolia, but he describes the eagerness with 

 which his Armenian companions collected and ate the fruit, 

 and he mentions the trees as of the size of oaks.'' 



