CHAP, XLII. ROSACER. CRATE GUS. 827 
# 19. C. (4.) MaRocca‘na Pers. The Morocco Thorn. 
Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 37.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 600. 
ae ie De Candolle expresses a doubt whether C. matra Lin. Fil. Sup., 253., be not a syn. of 
this species. 
Engravings. Fig. 594. in p. 862.; and the plate in our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, and pinnatifid, glabrous, 
glandles®% Stipules cut, rather palmately. Flowers upon long peduncles 
in terminal glabrous corymbs. Sepals obtuse. Styles 2, (Dec. Prod., ii. 
p- 628.) Flowers very fragrant, and the petals of a very pure white. 
A native of Morocco; introduced in 1822, and flowering in May and 
June. A handsome tree, of more fastigiate growth than C, Azarvlus, but 
in others respects closely resembling that species, except in being smaller 
in all its parts. There is a very handsome tree of this kind (which 
we consider to be merely a variety of C. Azardlus) in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, which is the only one we know of in England. It 
is nearly 20 ft. high, after being 10 years planted; and it flowered and 
fruited for the first time in 1835. It produces its leaves very early in the 
season, in mild winters even in January; and it retains them very late. 
It is a small, but decided tree, which may be considered one of the hand- 
somest of the genus. The branches, though somewhat fastigiate, are not 
rigid ; and they will, probably, as the plant advances in age, become pen- 
dulous, like those of C. Azarolus. 
* 20. C. Aro‘\ntA Bose. The Aronia Thorn. 
Identification. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 601. 
Synonymes. Méspilus Aronia Willd. Enum. Suppl., and N. Du Ham., 4. p. 158.4 C. Azxardlus B 
Willd. Sp.; C. fissa Lodd. Cat. i 
Engravings. Pococke Crategi, t. 85., according to Willdenow ; fig. 593. in p. 862. ; and the plate in 
our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves pubescent on the under sur- 
face, wedge-shaped at the base, 3-cleft ; lobes obtuse, entire, each ending in 
3 obtuse mucronate teeth. Fruit yellow. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 629.) A native 
of Greece and the Levant ; introduced in 1810; and forming a thick erect- 
branched tree of the third rank ; remarkable for the abundance of its large 
yellow fruit, which are good to eat, and have been made into excellent 
tarts with Siberian crabs. There are fine specimens of this tree in the 
Garden of the Horticultural Society, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height. It was 
introduced in 1810. It produces its foliage early, and its flowers about the 
end of May, rather later than those of the common hawthorn. Its fruit 
ripens in August and September, and hangs on the tree till the leaves drop, 
in November or December. 
¥ 21. C. orteENTA‘LIS Bosc. The Eastern Thorn. 
Identification. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. 
Synonymes. Méspilus orientalis Poir. Suppl., 4. p.72.; C. odoratissima Bot. Rep. and Lod. Cat. 
Engravings. Fig, 595. in p. 863, ; and the plate in our Second Volume, 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches whitely tomentose. Leaves 3-lobed, downy be- 
neath ; the two side lobes ovate, and having tooth-like incisions at the tip ; 
the middle lobe trifid. Stipules broad and cut. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 629.) A 
native of the East; introduced in 1810, and growing to the height of 15ft. 
or 20 ft. It forms a spreading, handsome, low tree, readily distinguished 
from most other species by its very hoary branches, which are loose, ram- 
bling, crossing each other, and somewhat pendulous, It is late in producing 
its leaves, and also its flowers: the latter generally appear with those of 
C. tanacetifolia, about the end of May (this year, 1836, on the 17th of 
June), and they are succeeded by numerous large fruit, of a yellowish red, 
or coral, colour, very agreeable to the taste, which ripen in August and 
September ; and, by their number and brilliant colour, render the tree sin- 
gularly ornamental till they are destroyed by the frost. There are several 
fine specimens of this species in the Garden of the London Horticultural 
Society, and at White Knights. 
