842 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Sepals serrated. Fruit 
almost top-shaped, yel- 
low, or yellowish green. © 
Nuts 5. (Dee. Prod., ii. 
p- 627.) A native of g 
North America; where, & 
according to Pursh, it 
forms a low shrub in 
sandy shady woods, from 
New Jersey to Carolina. 
The leaves, he says, are 
small, and the fruit large, 
and of a greenish yellow. 
Seeds of this species 
were sent from Virginia 
by Banister, and plants 
were raised from them in Bishop Compton’s garden, at Fulham, pre- 
viously to 1713: plants were afterwards raised by the Duke of Argyll 
at Whitton; in consequence of which it used formerly to be generally 
called Lord Hey’s thorn. It forms a shrub, seldom exceeding 6 ft. or 
7 ft. in height; having numerous slender branches, interwoven with one 
another, and armed with very long, slender, sharp thorns. The leaves are 
scarcely an inch long, but they vary much in breadth on the same plant, 
and in different seminal varieties. The flowers, which are white, are pro- 
duced late in May and June ; and the fruit also ripens late, hanging on the 
bushes all the winter. The largest plant that we know of this species is 
at Ham House, where it is evidently of considerable age, and, on its own 
root, has attained the height of 12 ft.; at White Knights, there are stand- 




ards of it in the park, grafted on the com- 558 AW A 
mon hawthorn, which are from 8 ft. to10 ft. za 
high; and, both there and at Ham House, @2f ag 
they flower freely, and produce fruit every @\ es 
year. Waves i L< y 
Varieties. 
% C. p.2 florida, C. flérida Lodd. Cat., ( fig. 
558. and fig. 613. in p. 867.) has the 
leaves and fruit somewhat smaller 
and rounder than those of the species. 
aC. p.3 grossulariaf olia, C. linearis Lodd. Cat., (fig. 559. and fig. 616. 
in p. 867.) has the leaves lobed, and somewhat like those of the 
gooseberry. orn 
These varieties run so much into 
one another, that, unless they are 
seen together in a living state, as 
in Messrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, 
it is difficult to distinguish them 
from the species, or from each 
other; for, however different the 
leaves may appear in our figures 
(see p. 867.), all the forms of these 
may occasionally be found on the 
same plant; and some plants of 
each variety are wholly without 
spines, while in others the spines 
are very numerous. 
# 26. C. virer’NIca Lodd. The Virginian Thorn. 
Identification. Woda. Cat., ed. 1830, and ed. 1836. ' 
Synonyme. C. virginiana Hort. 
Engravings. Fig. 560.; and fig. 615. in p. 867. 

