820 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II. 
§ iv. Crés-galli. 
Sect. Char. Leaves without lobes, obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 
more or less serrated, and of a dark shining green, with petioles margined 
by the decurrence of the leaf, Fruit small, or middle-sized, round, dark 
green till nearly ripe, and, when ripe, scarlet. Spines very long, and bent 
like the spur of a cock. 
¥ 6. C. Cru’s-ca’tL1 L. The Cock’s-spur Thorn. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p.632.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 626.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 338.; Don’s 
ill., 2. p. 598 
ets Crate’ gus licida Wang. Am., t. 17. f. 42.; C. cuneifdlia Lodd. Cat.; Méspilus Wcida 
Ehrh. Beitr.; M. Cris-galli Poiv.; M. hyemalis Wait.; M. cuneifodlia Meench’; Néflier Pied de 
Coc, Fr. ; glanzende Mispel, Ger. 
Engravings. Wang. Am., t. 17. f.42.; Dend. Brit., t. 56. ; fig. 574. in p, 856.; and the plate of the 
species in our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Spines long. Leaves obovate-wedge-shaped, nearly sessile, 
glossy, elabrous, falling off late. Stipules linear. Lobes of the calyx 
lanceolate, and somewhat serrated. Styles 2. Fruit scarlet. (Dec. Prod., ii. 
p. 626.) A native of North America, and common in woods and hedges, 
and on the banks of rivers, from Canada to Carolina; where it flowers in 
April and May, and ripens its small scarlet fruit in September and October. 
It was introduced into England in 1691; and has been more generally cul- 
tivated than any other of the American species. It grows to the height of 
15 ft. or 20 ft., and sometimes higher. In its native country, according to 
Pursh, it is found in the three forms of C. C. spléndens, C. C. pyracanthi- 
folia, and C. C. salicifolia; to which, by cultivation, in Europe, several other 
varieties have been added. In the south of England, in warm sheltered 
situations, this species is subevergreen, retaining its leaves and fruit 
throughout the winter. There isa splendid specimen of it, which assumes 
this character, on the lawn in front of the mansion of Sketty Hall, near 
Swansea, the seat of that well-known botanist, L. W. Dillwyn, Esq., M. P. 
Varieties. 
* C. C. 2 spléndens Dec. Prod., Ait. Hort. Kew., ii. p. 170., Pluk., t. 46. 
f.1. C. arbutifolia and C. spléndens Lodd. Cat. ( fig. 575. in p. 856.) 
— Leaves obovate-wedge-shaped, and shining; and, being produced 
in abundance, the plant has a splendid appearance. 
¥ C. C. 3 pyracanthifolia Dec. Prod., Ait. Hort. Kew., tiep. Uns, oe. 
pyracanthifolia Lodd. Cat. ; Méspilus lucida Dum. Cours, Bot. Cult., 
ed. 2. v. p. 448. (jig. 580. in p- 856.; and the plate in our Second 
Volume.)—Leaves oblong, with the ; 
upper part lanceolate; the lower 
part tending to wedge-shaped. 
This, even when only 3 or 4 years 
grafted, forms a singular little old- 
looking tree, spreading like a 
miniature cedar of Lebanon. 
¥ C.C. 4 salicifolia Dec. Prod., Ait. 
Hort. Kew., ii, p.170.  C. salici- 
folia, (fig. 578. in p. 856., and the 
plate in our Second Volume.) 
—Leaves oblong, with the upper 
part lanceolate; the lower part tending to 8 wedge ahanet This 
forms a low flat-headed tree, like the preceding variety, as shown 
in fig. 551.3 which is a portrait of a he 
plant in Messrs. Loddiges’s arbo- 
retum, that, in 1835, after being five 
years orafted at a foot from the 
ground, was not quite 5ft. high. 
There were, at the same time, se- 
veral other miniature trees of this 


