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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
specimen of the Glastonbury thorn, gathered in that garden on 
Christmas-day, 1834, with fully expanded flowers and ripe fruit on 
the same branch. The plants of this variety in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges, flower sometimes in 
December, and sometimes not till March or April. Seeds of this 
variety are said to produce only the common hawthorn; but we 
have no doubt that, among a number of seedlings, there would, as 
in similar cases, be found several plants having a tendency to the 
same habits as the parent. With regard to the legend, there is 
nothing miraculous in the circumstance of a staff, supposing it to 
have been of hawthorn, having, when stuck in the ground, taken 
root, and become a tree; as it is well known that the hawthorn 
grows from stakes and truncheons ; one of the finest trees in Scot- 
land, viz. that at Fountains Hall, having been originated in that 
manner by a man still in existence. The miracle of Joseph of 
Arimathea is nothing compared with that of Mr. John Wallis, timber 
surveyor of Chelsea, author o! Dendrology (see Gard. Mag., vol. x. 
p- 51.), who exhibited to the Horticultural and Linnzan Societies, 
. in 1834, a branch of hawthorn, which, he said, had hung for several 
years in a hedge among other trees; and, though without any root, 
or even touching the earth, had produced, every year, leaves, flowers, 
and fruit ! 
¥ C. O. 26 mondgyna, C. mondgyna Jacq., has flowers with only one 
style, like C. sibirica, but does not flower early, like that variety. _ It 
has been observed by botanists, that there is a great uncertainty in 
the number of styles in the genus Cratze‘gus. According to D’ Asso, 
the common hawthorn is constantly monogynous in Spain. Allioni 
states that this variety has the leaves more shining than those of the 
species; and that they are extremely smooth, and deeply cut into 
three or five lobes; the peduncles are, also, smooth ; the segments of 
the calyx reflexed ; and the fruit constantly contains only one seed. 
Sir James Edward Smith says, “‘ Repeated examination has satisfied 
me, and many other English botanists, that flowers with a single 
style are equally frequent in Jacquin’s C. Oxyacantha and in his C. 
monoégyna, though by no means universal in either.” (Eng. Bot., ii. 
p- 360.) According to the letter of the Linnzan system, and to 
the generally received mode of forming generic and specific distinc- 
tions on differences in parts of the flower alone, without reference to 
other parts of the plant, C. O. mondgyna ought to be made, not 
only a distinct species, but a distinct genus, since it does not even 
belong to the same order as the other varieties of the same species ; 
or, at all events, it ought to be made a distinct species, and was so 
made by Jacquin and others. The truth appears to be, that C. Oxy- 
acantha, like most of the other species of Cratze\gus, varies in having 
from 1 to 5 styles, though one or two are most frequent. It appears 
that the Siberian variety is also monogynous; but, as it is remark- 
able for its early flowering, we have kept it distinct under the name 
of C. O. sibirica. See No. 3. 
* C. 0.27 apétala Lodd. Cat. — This remarkable variety has the flowers 
without petals, or very nearly so. 
* C. O. 28 licida. We apply this name to a very distinct and very 
beautiful-leaved variety, which forms a standard in the southern 
boundary hedge of the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and which, 
we trust, will soon be propagated in the nurseries. The leaves are 
large, regularly cut, somewhat coriaceous in texture, and of a fine 
shining green. The plant is of vigorous growth. 
¥ C. O. 29 capitdta Smith of Ayr differs from the species chiefly in being 
of a somewhat more fastigiate habit, and in producing its flowers in 
close heads, mostly at the extremities of its branches. 
