830 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
made of hawthorn jbeing used instead of fences of cut spray of trees. Whitethorn, from the 
profusion of its white flowers and its being thorny. May, and Maybush, have reference both to the 
time of flowering of the plant, and to its use in the May, or floral, games. The French name, 
Aubépine, refers to its flowering in spring, or in what may poetically be called the morning of the 
year ; aube signifying the dawn of the day. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves obovate-wedge-shaped, almost entire or trifid, or cut, 
glabrous, rather glossy. Corymbs of several flowers. Sepals glandless, 
acute. Styles 1—3. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 628.) Common in the hedges of 
Europe, and varying much in different situations. 
Varieties. These are very numerous, and some of them very distinct. The 
reason why they are more numerous in this species than in most others is, 
that the plant, for the last half century and upwards, has been very exten- 
sively raised from seed, for making hedges ; and curious nurserymen, 
when they have observed any plants indicating a striking peculiarity of 
foliage, or mode of growth, in their seed-beds, have marked them, kept them 
apart, and propagated them by budding or grafting. Another reason is, the 
many thousands of plants now growing in the hedges of this country, among 
which may be observed almost every variety of the species now in cultiva- 
tion in gardens. In the environs of London, we have observed the scarlet- 
flowered variety repeatedly in hedges, and also varieties with variegated 
leaves, with woolly fruit, with yellow fruit, and with pendulous shoots. 
As to-varieties in the leaves, they are endless; and the same may be said 
of the size, and of hardness, or fleshiness, of the fruit. In the following 
enumeration we have confined ourselves to plants which we have actually 
seen in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, or in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
* C. O. 2 obtusita Dec. Prod. and Don’s Mill. Méspilus Oxyacantha 
integrifolia’ Wallr. Sched., 219.; C. oxyacanthdides Thuill. Fl. Par., 
245., Lindl, Bot. Reg., t. 1128., Dec, Fl. Fr., iv. p. 433.; C. Oxyacan- 
tha FV. Dan., t.335.; the French hawthorn. ( fig. 601. in p. 864., and 
the plate in our Second Volume.)—Leaves rather rhomb-shaped at 
the base, obovate, undivided, or with three obtuse lobes, crenate, of 
the same colour on both surfaces. Styles 1—3. A small tree, re- 
sembling, in general appearance, the common hawthorn, but distin- 
guished from it by its smaller, obovate, less cut, flat, and shining 
leaves. C. lucida Smith of Ayr, C. oxyacanthéides lucida Sweet, is 
scarcely or not at all different from this variety. ; 
¥ ©. O. 3 sibirica, C. sibirica Lodd. Cat., C. monégyna L., 
( fig. 555.) is an early leafing variety, a native of Siberia. 
In mild seasons, it begins to put forth its leaves in 
January ; and, in dry summers, it 
loses them proportionately soon _» 
in the autumn. On account of 
its early leafing and flowering, it 
well merits a place in collections. 
The flowers have only one style ; w¥i} 
but, as there are other varieties 
having only one style which do 
not flower early, we have not 
adopted Linnzeus’s name of C. 
monogyna. 
* C. O. 4& transylvdnica Hort., from the plant in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, appears to be nearly, if not quite, the same as C. 
O. sibirica. 
¥ C.O. 5 quercifolia Booth (fig. 608. in p. 866.) appears very distinct 
in regard to foliage; but there are only small plants of it in two or 
three places in the neighbourhood of London, all of which have 
been introduced lately from Mr, Booth of Hamburgh. 
¥ C. O. 6 laciniata, C. laciniata Lodd. Cat., (fig. 603. in p. 865., and the 
plate in our Second Volume) has finely cut leaves; the shoots are 






