824 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART ItT. 
¥ 13. C. (.) Lopa‘ta Bose. The lobed-/eaved Thorn. 
Identification. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 599. 
Synonymes. Méspilus lobata Poir. Suppl., 4. p.71.; C. latea Hort. 
Engravings. Fig. 554, ; and fig. 586. in p. 859. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches 
a little villose. Disks 
of leaves ovate, une- 4 
qually serrated, or 
lobed, slightly downy 
beneath, upon very 
short petioles.  Sti- 
pules cut. Flowers in 
loose corymbs. (Dec. 
tree closely resembling 
C. flava in general ap- 
pearance, and differing 
from it only in having 
some of the leaves with 
larger lobes, and some é 
of the spines larger. The flowers are sparingly produced, among dense 
tufts of leaves; and the fruit, which is green when ripe, is still less abun- 
dant. It is pear-shaped, and very different from every other kind of 
Cratz*‘gus, except C. flava and C. f. trilobata. 
* 14. C. (F.) rritopa‘ra Lodd. Cat. The three-lobed-/eaved Thorn. 
Identification. Lodd. Cat., edit. 1832. 
Synonyme. C. spinosissima Lee. 
Engravings. Fig. 587. in p. 860, ; and the plate in our Second Volume. 
Description, §c. Leaves ovate-cuneate, notched and serrated. Petioles 
slender. Surface flat, shining, somewhat veined. Branches small, thickly 
beset with slender thorns. Habit spreading. A hybrid, raised from seed in 
the Hammersmith Nursery, about 1820, or before. It forms a tree in general 
appearance resembling C. flava, but with the branches much less vigorous, 
and more thorny. The fruit is yellow, slightly tinged with red; and what 
distinguishes it from the two allied sorts is, that its leaves die off, in autumn, 
of an intensely deep scarlet. The only large specimen we know of this kind 
of thorn is in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges; but there are young plants 
of it in the Hammersmith and other nurseries. 

§ vill. Ap7zfolie. 
Sect. Char. Leaves deltoid, or somewhat resembling those of the common 
thorn. The fruit is also of the same colour; but the tree has a totally 
different habit, having the shoots loose and spreading, weak, and almost 
without thorns. 
¥ 15. C. apuFo‘t1a Miche. The Parsley-leaved Thorn. 
Identification. Michx. F\. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 287., not Med. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 627.; Don’s Mill., 2. 
p. 599. F 
Synonymes. C Oxyacantha Walt. Carol., 147.; C. apiifdlia major Lodd. Cat. 
Engravings. Fig. 589. in p. 860.; and the plate in Vol. IL. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves deltoid, cut into lobes that are acute and incisely 
toothed. Pedicels in the corymb villose, mostly simple. Tube of calyx 
villose. Sepals obscurely serrated. Fruit scarlet. (Dec. Prod., i. p. 627. 
A native of moist woods in Virginia and Carolina. According to Nuttall, 
it is highly serviceable for the formation of hedges ; but an imported plant in 
the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges has a loose spreading head, with weak 
rambling branches, almost destitute of thorns, and by no means gives the 
idea of a plant adapted to hedges. All the species of Cratz\gus, however, 
are liable to vary in an extraordinary manner, and we have seen young 
