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in;diameter, and is roundish, with fine angles, like the ribs of a melon} being 
lightly covered with down, and having a persistent calyx of 5 sepals, toothed 
like the leaves of the tree. Tournefort also notices the circumstance of one or 
two of the bracteas sometimes growing out of the flesh of the fruit, or being 
produced from its footstalk. The fruit, though agreeable, he says is not so 
much so as that of the azarole; but he thinks it might be improved by cul- 
tivation. It is much eaten by the Armenians. This species was introduced 
in 1789; and in 10 years it forms a tree 20 ft. high; readily distinguishable, 
at some distance, by the rough scaly bark of its trunk, and the stiff upright 
branches which form its head. 
Statistics. In the environs of London, at Kenwood, 35 years planted, and 20 ft. high, the dia- 
meter of the trunk 9in., and of the head 15ft.; at Syon, 14 ft. high ; in Dorsetshire, at Melbury 
Park, 20 years planted, and 17 ft. high ; in Somersetshire, at Hinton House, 19 years planted, and 
18 ft. high ; in Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50 years planted, and 20ft. high; in Wiltshire, at 
Longleat, 40 years planted, and 20ft. high; in Berkshire, at White Knights, 25 years planted, 
and 14 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk Qin., and of the head 26ft ; in Nottinghamshire, at 
Clumber Park,"18 ft. high ; in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, 18 ft. high; in Pembroke- 
shire, at Golden Grove, 20 years planted, and 15ft. high ; in’ Staffordshire, at Trentham, 21 years 
planted, and 18 ft. high; in Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 16 years planted, and 15 ft. high ; in Wor- 
cestershire, at Croome, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. high. In Scotland, in Renfrewshire, in the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, 12 years planted, and 11 ft. high; at Bothwell Castle, 45 years planted, 
and 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 13 in., and of the head 40 ft., in prepared loamy soil, in a 
sheltered situation. In Ireland, in the Cullenswood Nursery, 12 years planted, and 21 ft. high; at 
Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, and 18 ft. high. 
§ xi. Heterophilla. 
Sect. Char. eaves cuneate, and sub-persistent. Fruit long, middle-sized, 
and crimson. 
¥ 23. C. HETEROPHY’LLA Flugge. The various-leaved Thorn. 
Identification. Flugge Ann. Mus., 12. p. 423, t.38.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. ; 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1847, 
Synonymes. C. neapolitana Hort. ; Méspilus constantinopolitana Godefroy. 
Engravings. Ann. Mus., 12. t..38.; Bot. Reg., t. 1847. ; fig. 600. in p. 864. ; and theplate in our Second 
Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves bright ; falling off late, lanceolate-cuneate, toothed 
at the apex, 3-cleft; segments serrate. Tube of the calyx fusiform. Cymes 
many-flowered. Flowers I-styled. Fruit ovate, including one nut, with a 
hard bony shell, and one seed. Stipules large, pinnatifid. (Lindl. Bot. Reg., 
t. 1847.) The native country of this species is uncertain; and it is, 
probably, only a hybrid between the common hawthorn and the azarole, 
or some other European species. It forms a very handsome, somewhat 
fastigiate, or pyramidal, dense-headed, low tree; producing its leaves and 
flowers early in the spring, and retaining its leaves and fruit till the first 
autumnal frosts. The fruit resembles the common haw, but is narrower 
and longer, and the colour is a rich crimson. The species was intro- 
duced in 1816; but it is not common in collections. There are fine trees 
of it in the Garden of the London Horticultural Society, where it is 
extremely ornamental, both when covered with flowers in May, and with 
ripe fruit in September and October. 
§ xii. Oxyacanthe. 
Sect. Char. Leaves obovate, trifid, or variously cut. Flowers numerous, in 
corymbs. Fruit generally red. 
% 24, C. Oxyaca’ntHa L. The sharp-thorned Crategus, or common 
Hawthorn. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 683.; Dec. Prod., 2. p..628.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 600. ; Baxt. Brit. Fl. Pl. 
2. t. 118. 
Synonymes. The Pyracantha of the Greeks; Méspilus Oxyacantha Gertn., and N. Du Ham. ; 
k’pine blanche, noble E’pine, Bois de Mai, Scuelleir Aubépine, Neflier Aubépine, Fr.; Hage- 
dorn gemeiner Weissdorn, Ger.; Hagetoon, Dan.; Hagetorn, Swed.; Bianco-spino, J¢al. ; 
Espino blanco, Span. ; White Thorn, Maybush, Quick, Quickset, May. 
Engravings. Gertn. Fruct., 2. t. 87.; Eng. Bot., t. 2054; Baxt. Brit. Fl. Pl, t.18.; jig. 602. in 
p. 865. ; and the plate in our Second Volume. 
Derivation. Booth derives the word Haw from hage, or heg, a hedge; consequently he makes 
hawthorn signify hedgethorn. Quick signifies live; and was, probably, applied, from live hedges 
