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* CRAT^GUS odoratissima. 



Sivee test-scented Hawthorn. 



ICOSANDRIA Bl-FENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosaceje, § Pome^.v 

 CRATAEGUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128. 



C. odoratissima ; foliis trifidis pinnatlfidisque inciso-serratis basi cuneatis in- 

 cano-tomentosis, fructibus 5-pyrenis sphasricis pubescentibus, putamine 

 tenui. 



C. orientalls. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. cauc. 1 . 387. 



C. odoratissima. Bot. Repos. t. 590. Loudon Arboret. Brit. t.Wl a. 



C. tanacetifolia /3 taurica. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. 



Folia incano-tomentosa, demum viridiora, nunquam calva ; stipulis fal- 

 catis integris. Pedunculi tomentosi. Fructus lateritii, pubescentes, subpen- 

 tagoni, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassitudine solitd. 



A common bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea, 

 and elsewhere in the Crimea. It is described by Bieberstein 

 as growing to the size of the common Hawthorn. 



In this country it is always grafted upon that species, and 

 acquires a dense round-headed habit, which diminishes its 

 beauty in some degree ; this is, however, abundantly com- 

 pensated by its multitude of deliciously perfumed flowers, 

 and the rich clusters of red fruit with which it is loaded 

 in the autumn. It differs from C. orientalis not alone 

 rn the colour of its fruit ; but in its leaves never becoming- 

 smooth, in its stipules being small and imdivided, and in 

 the stones that enclose the seeds not being particularly 

 thick-sided. 



* See folio 1161, 



