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* CRATAEGUS Aionia. 



The Aronia Thorn. 



ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea, Subord. Pome^. 

 CRATJEGUS.—Supn}, vol. 13. fol, 1128. 



C. Aronia ; subinerrais ramulis tomentosis, folils cuneatis pinnatifidis trifidisque 

 laciniis latls linearibus apice sub-incisis supra lucidis subtus glabriusculis 

 glaucescentibus, corymbis subsessilibus, fructibus (armeniacis) subangulatis 

 dipyrenis, putamlne crassissimo. 



Mespilus Aronia. Willd. enum. Suppl. 



Cr. Aronia. Dec. Prodr. 2. 629. Loudon Arb. Britann. p. 827. f^g. 593. 



Mespilus orientalis apii folio subtus hirsute. Pocock. Travels in the East, 1 89. 

 t. 85. fide Willd. 



Arbor mediocris, coma conicd subapertd, ramis rigidis, nullo modo 

 Jlexuosis. Folia, forma variant ut in omnibus fere speciebus mos est ; semper 

 tamen circumscriptionem habent cuneatam ; tridentata sunt, trifda, pin- 

 natifdaque , laciniis integerrimis emarginatis incisisque ; facie superiore 

 scepius glabrescunt, subtus pabe quddam pagina obducitur. Flores albi 

 speciosi. 



Said to be a native of the Levant, I presume upon the 

 authority of Pococke's Travels, which I have not at hand to 

 consult. Specimens from Gramniont near Montpellier are 

 before me, and they are considered wild by Professor Delile, 

 who gathered them. This I suspect is the species which 

 yields the fruit called at Montpellier Pommettes a deux closes, 

 and not C. Azarolus. 



It is very near C. Azarolus, of which indeed it might be 

 considered a mere variety, if it were not so much more hardy, 

 nearly destitute of pubescence, and constantly furnished with 



*- See folio 1161. 



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