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17. KOSACE.^. 



Crataegus monogryna. 



3. Crat.^dgus, L. 

 1. Crataegus monogryna, 



Jac(). Ilairthnin, May. Spiny 

 shrub or small tree; leaves de- 

 ciduous, on slender stalks, dark- 

 green and shining, broad-oval and 

 wedgesliaped at base, deeply pin- 

 natifid, with 3-7 divergent lobes, 

 entire or toothed at summit ; 

 stipules large, leafy ; flowers 

 white or pink, scented, in 

 corymbs ; calyx with 5 spreading 

 lobes; style 1; fruit small, red, 

 fleshv. containing 1 bony nutlet. 

 (Partly C uxyacantha, L.) 



Hedges and scrub. Mount 

 Lofty Range.— Fl. Sept.-Nov., fr. 

 Jan. - Feb. — Europe; western 

 Asia. 



4. POTERIUJI, L. 



(Greek poterion, a cup; alluding 

 to the shape of the calyx.) 

 1. Poterium Sangfui- 



sorba, L. SJircps Bunirt. 

 Siilnd Burnet. Rootstock peren- 

 nial, with erect or ascending 

 annual stems; leaves odd-pinnate, 

 of 9-21 oval, toothed leaflets; 

 .stipules toothed ; flowers in 

 globular or ovoid heads on long 

 peduncles, upper female, lower 

 male ; calyx with 4 deciduous 

 lobes; coi'olla absent; stamens 20- 

 3(J, drooping, styles 2 ; fruit (ripe 

 calyx) dry, quadrangular, vari- 

 ously pitted and wrinkled, con- 

 taining 1-2 l-.'^eeded carpels. 



Sometimes divided into 3 

 species: - 1'. dirf]/<ir(niuim, 

 Spach, with fruit net-wrinkled 

 and superficially honeycombed 

 (see figure); F. luurirafmn, 

 Spacli, fruit with sharp angles 

 and deep pits Avith toothed edges; 

 /*. Mdfninlii, Spach, fruit covered 

 with blunt tubercles. 

 Cultivated for feed and subspontaneous in places. — 

 Sept. -Feb. — Europe; western Asia. 



■5. AiiCnu.MiLLA, L. 

 (Said to be named on account of its uses in alchemy.) 

 1. Alchemilla arvensis, Scop. Small villous 



Poterium Sanguisorba. 



