CHAP. XLII. liOBA'C^JE. CRAT^'GUS. 827 



, 5f 19. C. (A.) niAUOccA^NA Pcrs. The Morocco Thorn. 



Identification. Pers. Syn., 2. p. 37. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 628. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 600. 



Synnnyme. De Candolle expresses a doubt whether C. maura !,/«. f;7. Sa/»., 253., be not a syn. of 



this species. 

 Engravings. Fig. 594. in p. S&l. ; and the plate in our Second Volume. 



S2)ec. Char., Sfc. Leaves wedge-shaped, 3-lobed, and pinnatifid, glabrous, 

 glandless. Stipules cut, rather palmately. Flowers upon long peduncles 

 in terminal glabrous corymbs. Sepals obtuse. Styles 2. {Dec. Prod., ii. 

 p. G28,) Flowers very fragrant, and the petals of a very pure white. 

 A native of Morocco; introduced in 1822, and flowering in May and 

 June. A handsome tree, of more fastigiate growth than C. Azaru/us, but 

 in others respects closely resembling that species, except in being smaller 

 in all its parts. There is a very handsome tree of this kind (which 

 we consider to be merely a variety of C. Azarolus) in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, which is the only one we know of in England. It 

 is nearly 20 ft. high, after being 10 years planted ; and it flowered and 

 fruited for the first time in 1835. It produces its leaves very early in the 

 season, in mild winters even in January ; and it retains them very late. 

 It is a small, but decided tree, which may be consiilered one of the hand- 

 somest of the genus. The branches, though somewhat fastigiate, are not 

 rigid ; and they will, probably, as the plant advances in age, become pen- 

 dulous, like those of C. Azarolus. 



1 20, C. AroVia Bosc. The Aronia Thorn. 



Jdentlflcation. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Don's Mil!., 2. p. fiOl. 



Synnnymcs. Mespilus Arbnia Willd. Enum. Suppl, and N. Du Ham., 4. p. 158. t C. Axarblus fi 



Willd. Sp. ; C. f issa Lodd. Cat. 

 Engravings. Pococl^e Crattegi, t. 85., according to Willdenow ; fig. 593. in p. 862. ; and tho plate In 



our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., c^c. Branchlets pubescent. Leaves pubescent on the under sur- 

 face, wedge-shaped at the base, 3-cleft ; lobes obtuse, entire, each ending in 

 3 obtuse mucronate teeth. Fruit yellow. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 629.) A native 

 of Greece and the Levant ; introduced in 181 ; and forming a thick erect- 

 branched tree of the third rank ; remarkable for the abundance of its large 

 yellow fruit, which are good to eat, and have been made into excellent 

 tarts with Siberian crabs. There are fine specimens of this tree in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height. It was 

 introduced in 1810. It produces its foliage early, and its flowers about the 

 end of May, rather later than those of the common hawthorn. Its fruit 

 ripens in August and September, and hangs on the tree till the leaves drop, 

 in November or December. 



3^ 21. C. ORiENTA^Lis JBosc. The Eastern Thorn. 



Identification. Bosc ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 629. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 600. 



Si/nonymes. il/tspilus orient&lis Poir. Suppl., 4. p. 72.; C. odoratissima Bot. Rep. and Lod. Cat. 



Engravings. Fig. 595. in p. 863. ; and the plate in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Branches whitely tomentose. Leaves 3-lobed, downy be- 

 neath ; the two side lobes ovate, and having tooth-like incisions at the tip ; 

 the middle lobe trifid. Stipules broad and cut. {Dec. Prod., ii. p. 629.) A 

 native of the East; introduced in 1810, and growing to the height of 15ft. 

 or 20 ft. It forms a spreading, handsome, low tree, readily distinguished 

 from most other species by its very hoary branches, which are loose, ram- 

 bling, crossing each other, and somewhat pendulous. It is late in producing 

 its leaves, and also its flowers : the latter generally appear with those of 

 C tanacetif(Mia, about the end of May (this year, 1836, on the 17th of 

 June), and they are succeeded by numerous large fruit, of a yellowish red, 

 or coral, colour, very agreeable to the taste, which ripen in August and 

 September ; and, by their number and brilliant colour, render the tree sin- 

 gularly ornamental till they are destroyed by the frost. There are several 

 fine specimens of this species in the Garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society, and at White Knights. 



