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concealed in the fleshy calyx and attached to its sides, with 2 

 ovules in each. Fruit turbinate, or crowned by the persistent 

 calyx-limb. 



C. vulgaris, Lindl. Dwarf Quince-leaved Medlar. — e.b.s. 

 2713. L.c. 361. A. 1. C. 1. Lat. 53-54°. Alt. 0-200 yds. 

 Tern. 48-47°. 



Small tree or bush. Leaves roundish, ovate or obovate, on 

 short petioles, leathery, smooth above, densely downy, cottony, 

 or shaggy below, alternate. Flowers pale red, drooping. Calyx- 

 segments ovate, blunt. Petals round ; styles three. Fruit pear- 

 shaped, at first red, finally black or dark-brown. 



Great Orme's Head, North Wales. Shrub or tree. July. 



Cosson and Germain remark that this shrub is rarely sub- 

 spontaneous in the hedges within seventy miles of Paris (the 

 limits of their Flora), but they say it is planted in gardens and 

 plantations. 



Crataegus, L. in part. — Spinous shrubs with more or less 

 lobed or incised leaves and leaf-like persistent stipules. Flowers 

 in branching corymbs, usually white or roseate, and with cadu- 

 cous bracts. Calyx 5-lobed. Ovary 1-2- rarely 3-5-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 1-2, rarely 3-5. Fruit nearly 

 globular, crowned by the withering lobes of the calyx, containing 

 one bony nut, rarely 2-5 nuts. 



C. Oxyacantha, Linn. Common Hawthorn. — e.b. 2504. l.c 

 360. A. 17. C. 75 (80). Lat. 50-59°. Alt. 0-500 yds. Tern. 

 52-44°. 



Shrub very spinous, forming a tufted bush, and sometimes a 

 small tree. Leaves glabrous, leathery, petioled, obovate, wedge- 

 shaped, more or less deeply divided into 3-7 lobes, lobes toothed 

 or incised above. Stipules toothed. Calyx reflexed, downy or 

 glabrous. Fruit red, farinaceous, pulpy. 



Flowers in May ; bears fruit in September. Woods and hedges. 

 A valuable hedge-shrub. 



Var. a, vulgaris. — Leaves deeply pinnatifid; peduncles and 

 calyxes of the flower downy or hairy ; style usually single ; fruit 

 bearing a single nut. 



Var. /3, oxyacanthoides. — Leaves less deeply pinnatifid ; pedun- 

 cles and calyx of the flower glabrous, or nearly so ; styles 1 or 2, 

 rarely 3; fruit larger, bearing 1-2, rarely 3, nuts. — A later- 

 flowering plant than var. a. 



